navel point : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: navel point	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for navel point
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
navel point n the center point or middle of something; "the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe" Synonym(s): navel, navel point
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
2. The central part or point of anything; the middle. Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. --Milton. 3. (Gun.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage. {Navel gall}, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. --Johnson. {Navel point}. (Her.) Same as {Nombril}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nombril \Nom"bril\, n. [F. nombril, for OF. lombril, i. e., ombril, with the article, a dim. fr. L. umbilicus the navel. See {Navel}.] (Her.) A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also {navel point}. See {Escutcheon}.