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Defilading :: Defilading (n.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected..

Pandect :: Pandect (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law..

Bent :: Bent (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction..

Magnetic :: Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian..

Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

Spiritous :: Spiritoso (a. & adv.) Spirited; spiritedly; -- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner..

Cant :: Cant (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football..

Direction :: Direction (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction..

Attacca :: Attacca () Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

Wind :: Wind (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds..

Line :: Line (n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy..

Dacapo :: Dacapo () From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated..

Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (a.) Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal.

Rake :: Rake (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc..

Onward :: Onward (a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc..

Ripsaw :: Ripsaw (v. t.) A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches..

Tensor :: Tensor (n.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor..

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