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Ungula :: Ungula (n.) A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; -- so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..

Goring Cloth :: Goring cloth (n.) A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

Declination :: Declination (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.

Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance..

Plagiocephalic :: Plagiocephalic (a.) Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Skew :: Skew (a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.

Twire :: Twire (v. i.) To peep; to glance obliquely; to leer.

Diagonal :: Diagonal (n.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel..

Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Slant :: Slant (v. t.) To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line..

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined..

Thwart :: Thwart (a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.

Trochlea :: Trochlea (n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes..

Asquint :: Asquint (adv.) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint..

Sloping :: Sloping (a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting..

Oblique :: Oblique (n.) An oblique line.

Backhand :: Backhand (a.) Backhanded; indirect; oblique.

Glancing :: Glancing (a.) Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot..

Endotheca :: Endotheca (n.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another..

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