That part of the floor in a ship--on either side of the keel--which approaches nearer to a horizontal than to a perpendicular direction, and begins to round upwards.
Is to haul through the slack of a tackle which hangs in a perpendicular direction, without sustaining or hoisting any weighty body.
The rays are most hurtful when they do not fall in a perpendicular direction on the eye, but slopingly or horizontally.
When wounds of the forehead are in a perpendicular direction, their margins are easily preserved in apposition, having little tendency to retract, and there is no risk of the relative situation of the eyelids being altered.
By the use of such apparatus for a considerable time, the vertebral column may regain its perpendicular direction, and all deformity of the neck be consequently removed.
Defn: To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
Defn: To inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
From what he says of it, one may easily perceive that the cylinders did not stand in a perpendicular direction, but lay horizontally in a box, so that the pistons moved horizontally, and not vertically, as at present.
I conjecture also that the coulter of the plough, which cuts the earth in a perpendicular direction, had the name of sech, and that the words säge and sichel have an affinity to it.
If it be placed in water, it remains in a perpendicular direction, so that one can discover by it the weight of the fluid.
Mersenne thinks further, that the cone, added to the end of the tube, would have been unnecessary in a hydrometer; but it serves to keep the instrument with more ease in a perpendicular direction in the water.
A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
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