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Straightness :: Straightness (n.) The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path..

Orthospermous :: Orthospermous (a.) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants; -- opposed to coelospermous..

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus..

Uncurl :: Uncurl (v. t.) To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly..

Directly :: Directly (adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.

Stress :: Streptothrix (n.) A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted..

Straighting :: Straighted (imp. & p. p.) of Straighte.

Forthrightness :: Forthrightness (n.) Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.

Brad Awl :: Brad awl () A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc..

Tangent :: Tangent (a.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces..

Perk :: Perk (v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head..

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals..

Rectus :: Rectus (n.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye..

Break :: Break (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind..

Peen :: Peen (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge..

Recti- :: Recti- () A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved..

Gemsbok :: Gemsbok (n.) A South African antelope (Oryx Capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns..

Square :: Square (n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc..

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..

Homaloidal :: Homaloidal (a.) Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true..

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