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Tropic :: Tropic (n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23? 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic..

Macropinacoid :: Macropinacoid (n.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath..

Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees..

Plane-parallel :: Plane-parallel (a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass..

Hemstitch :: Hemstitch (v. t.) To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief..

Parallel :: Parallel (a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage..

Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. i.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

Altitude :: Altitude (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc..

Parallel :: Parallel (v. t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel.

Onyx :: Onyx (n.) Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground..

Analogue :: Analogue (n.) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group..

Conformability :: Conformability (n.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.

Stratification :: Straticulate (a.) Characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate..

Obliquity :: Obliquity (n.) The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator..

Fausse-braye :: Fausse-braye (n.) A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level..

Horizontal :: Horizontal (a.) Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface..

Conformable :: Conformable (a.) Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact..

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like..

Line :: Line (n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

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