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Lap :: Lap (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis..

Cam :: Cam (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together..

Sympodia :: Sympodial (a.) Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem..

Axis :: Axis (n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded..

Abaxile :: Abaxile (a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.

Paraxial :: Paraxial (a.) On either side of the axis of the skeleton.

Neural :: Neural (a.) relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos..

Revolve :: Revolve (v. t.) To cause to turn, as on an axis..

Squarrose :: Squarrose (a.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem..

Rotary :: Rotary (a.) Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion..

Screw :: Screw (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis..

Axis :: Axis (n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata..

Raceme :: Raceme (n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry..

Syncarp :: Synaxis (n.) A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper..

Arm :: Arm (n.) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard..

Unilateral :: Unilateral (a.) Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a unilateral raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one side of a common axis, or are all turned to one side..

Interaxis :: Interaxis (n.) The space between two axes. See Axis, 6..

Stem :: Stem (n.) The entire central axis of a feather.

Axle :: Axle (n.) An axis; as, the sun's axle..

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