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Immediate :: Immediate (a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause..

Abattis :: Abattis (n.) A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy..

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

Countercurrent :: Countercurrent (n.) A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft..

Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To change direction, as if revolving upon an axis or pivot; to turn; as, the troops wheeled to the right..

Dipleidoscope :: Dipleidoscope (n.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian..

House :: House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in

Way :: Way (n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.

Inflect :: Inflect (v. t.) To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow..

Northwardly :: Northwardly (a.) Having a northern direction.

Place :: Place (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis..

Regard :: Regard (v. t.) A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

Marcato :: Marcato (a.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.

Corona :: Corona (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle..

Presentive :: Presentive (a.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.

Sessile :: Sessile (a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom..

Rule :: Rule (n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.

Direptitiously :: Direptitiously (adv.) With plundering violence; by violent injustice.

Helicoid :: Helicoid (n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it..

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