octangular (ok tang gular)

[= Sp. octan gular = It. ottangolare, ottangulare, The interior [of Clitheroe Church] consists of a spacious nave, side-aisles, and chancel, with lofty octangular columns, and galleries borne by iron pillars immediately behind, but detached. Baines , Hist. Lancashire, II. 18. oct angularne (ok-tang'gū-lär-nes), n . property of being octangular, or of having eight angles. The Octans Had lei an us (ok'tanz had-le-yā'nus). [NL.: see octant.] In astron., a constellation of Lacaille, situated at the south pole, which it indicates.