I was unable to see the end of this vertical dive, for two more single-seaters were upon us.
A sailor can change the head of his ship as he pleases; an aeronaut can give a vertical motion to his balloon.
Consequently, at the moment of firing the visual radius applied to the moon will describe, with the vertical line of the place, an angle of sixty-four degrees.
HOG'-FRAME, a fore-and-aft frame serving to resist verticalflexure in a ship.
It is more natural to make inclined letters thanvertical ones, and they are therefore easier to execute.
Curriculum leading to a baccalaureate degree in commerce or business, vertical type.
But there are serious pedagogical objections to this arrangement which make the verticalplan seem preferable.
If both vertical and inclined letters are taught, the instruction on the vertical should be given first, as it is more difficult to make vertical strokes after becoming accustomed to the inclined strokes.
The best commercial drafting-room practice suggests the use of the vertical capitals for titles and subtitles, and the inclined, lower case letters and numerals for notes and dimensions.
The mullions which run from top to bottom of the three windows, dividing them into vertical strips, are sufficient to mark this building as of the Perpendicular period.
This arrangement is proved by a flat vertical joint up the middle of the wall, .
There, in vertical wells, they take up their station, drowsing whole days on end while unemployed.
The experiment is repeated; but this time the gibbet is slanting and the Mole, hanging in a vertical position, touches the ground at a couple of inches from the base of the gibbet.
This burrow is a vertical well, with a curb of fescue-grass intertwined with silk.
If any interesting buzz occur overhead, the Lycosa climbs up from her rugged manor with the same speed as from a vertical shaft.
To this refraction he truly refers the shortening, in their vertical diameter, of the horizontal sun and moon; to its variations he imputes the twinkling of the fixed stars.
No grassy sward, no vegetation carpets the horizontal or vertical surfaces with green.
It thaws in the sun, but freezes at night, and our path is like a channel of ice running along the edge of a vertical precipice.
One man then holds the horizontal piece upon the ground, while another takes the vertical stick between the palms of his hands, and turns it back and forth as rapidly as possible, at the same time pressing forcibly down upon it.
There is here what might be called a vertical migration, aside from the usual pilgrimages north and south which are known to the more level portions of North America.
A tracing of the outline plan was then made, on which the stories were distinguished by lines of different colors, and upon this tracing were recorded all the vertical measurements.
Close by, and apparently forming part of the same group, are a number of stones imbedded in the ground with their upper edges exposed and placed at right angles to the faces of the vertical monuments.
These were numbered, and at the same time described in a notebook, in which were also recorded the necessary vertical measurements, such as their height and elevation above the ground.
The vertical sticks in this example are barely discernible through the plastering, which has been applied with more than the usual degree of care.
It was quite common among the ancient builders to divide the ground or storage floor into smaller rooms than the floor above, still preserving the vertical alignment of the walls.
This consists of an opening, usually of oval or subrectangular form in elevation, placed at the junction of the roof with a vertical wall.
The vertical laths are bound in place by horizontal reeds laid upon them 1 or 2 feet apart.
The other warp stick is supported in a similar manner, while the thread is passed around both in a horizontal direction preparatory to placing and stretching it in a vertical position for the final working of the blanket.
In the construction of a paneled door the vertical stile on one side is prolonged at the top and bottom into a rounded pivot, which works into cup-like sockets in the lintel and sill, as illustrated in Fig.
There are two places in Zuni, portions of the densest house cluster, where the needs of unusual traffic have been met by the employment of double ladders, made of three vertical poles, which accommodate two tiers of rungs.
Phillips, expecting him to take refuge in the rocket room, was completely fooled when Truesdale leaped for the ladder in the vertical well.
This extended up and down a vertical well, which in space amounted to a second cross corridor.
He went to the vertical well and started up the ladder, hearing the others follow.
On one side, it is bounded by high cliffs of chalk, and on the other, by horizontal strata of diluvial soil, which extend to Freshwater; but the most remarkable feature of the place consists of the vertical strata in the centre.
The horizonal rows of squares represent the shafts, the vertical rows the warp-threads.
A second method is to use paper ruled horizontally, the lines representing the shafts; and to draw vertical lines for the warp-threads.
In marking out a weave, the warp-threads are represented by vertical lines, the filling by horizontal ones, or in each case by the space between these lines.
Faintly tinted broad horizontal and vertical lines and triangles in figure represent yellow stain.
Scientifically considered, the ~ is a means of spanning an opening by resolving verticalpressure into horizontal or diagonal thrust.
The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.
The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon.
The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.
In some genera the setae are in vertical rows, and in certain Capitellidae these rows so nearly meet that an arrangement occurs reminiscent of the continuous circle of setae in the perichaetous Oligochaeta.
Dorsal fin low and triangular, the length of its base considerably exceeding its vertical height.
Fasten the bow-stick at its exact center to the vertical stick, placing it 4 inches down from the top of the vertical stick, as indicated in Fig.
Locate the positions for the ends of the paddles, upon the side pieces, by drawing a horizontal line, a vertical line, and two diagonal lines at angles of 45 degrees, through their centers.
Attach the Bridle= at the intersection of the bow-stick and vertical stick, and at the lower end of the vertical stick (Fig.
Its verticaledge is bent around a piece of heavy wire, as shown in the plan detail of Fig.
A practical builder hews stone from the vertical walls of the quarry.
One of my plants began to grow on April first, and at the end of fourteen days was twelve inches tall and showing signs of uneasiness--now bending away from a vertical position and again standing nearly upright.
On May first the vine was lifted and tied to a vertical support--a large thread--where it remained entirely quiescent for two days.
The web or cloth to be embroidered is stretched between horizontal rollers in a vertical frame which hangs suspended in the machine from the shorter end of a lever above.
The rotative apparatus shown is an immense affair, with a series of eight tall tanks arranged on a circular carriage and rotating on a vertical axis, so as to bring each in turn to the charging and discharging positions.
As the threads of mucus dry and contract they draw the seeds up into a vertical position on the ground.
Now this shelf is full as narrow in a vertical line and as deeply worn horizontally into the mountain side and with a large accumulation of shingle (I can give cases) as the other shelves.
A bristle was gummed to one cotyledon, and beyond it a triangular bit of card was fixed, and in front a vertical glass.
Like those of some Cassiae its leaves take an almost perfectly vertical position, when at noon, on a summer day, the sun is nearly in the zenith; but I doubt whether this paraheliotropism will be observable in England.
Your suggestion of examining the movements of vertical leaves with an equal number of stomata on both sides, with reference to the light, seems to me an excellent one, and I hope that my son Francis may follow it up.
