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Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim..

Perpendicular :: Perpendicular (a.) Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.

Orbiculate :: Orbiculate (n.) That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular..

Upright :: Upright (a.) In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree..

Hade :: Hade (n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.

Cant :: Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.

Leg :: Leg (n.) An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water leg..

Orthopinacoid :: Orthopinacoid (n.) A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.

Bifarious :: Bifarious (a.) Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows..

Depressed :: Depressed (a.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies..

Ascians :: Ascians (n. pl.) Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun..

Step :: Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

Culminant :: Culminant (a.) Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant..

Standard :: Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally..

Wear :: Wear (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water..

Bar :: Bar (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures..

Direction :: Direction (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.

Vertically :: Vertically (adv.) In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically..

Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..

Acacia :: Acacia (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates..

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