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GROIN

Volume 10 · 62 words · 1815 Edition

that part of the belly next the thigh.

among builders, is the angular curve made by the intersection of two semi-cylinders or arches; and is either regular or irregular.—A regular groin is when the intersecting arches, whether semicircular or semielliptical, are of the same diameters and heights. An irregular groin is where one of the arches is semi-circular and the other semielliptical.