Definition of perpend

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Perpend (v. i.) To attend; to be attentive.

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Underlayer :: Underlayer (n.) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff..
Problem :: Problem (n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity..
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc..
Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..
Perbend :: Perbend (n.) See Perpender.
Stem :: Stem (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc..
Perpendicularity :: Perpendicularity (n.) The quality or state of being perpendicular.
Column :: Column (n.) A perpendicular line of figures.
Apothem :: Apothem (n.) The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.
Perpendicular :: Perpendicular (a.) At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc..
Normal :: Normal (a.) A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.
Cathetus :: Cathetus (n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle..
Breve :: Breve (n.) A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service..
Slant :: Slant (v. i.) Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique..
Pale :: Pale (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it..
Lemniscate :: Lemniscate (n.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center..
Cross :: Cross (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc..
Reclining :: Reclining (a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
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