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Horizontally :: Horizontally (adv.) In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally..

Inclinnation :: Inclinnation (n.) A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed..

Feathering :: Feathering (n.) The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t..

Rh/tic :: Rh/tic (a.) Pertaining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology..

Brachiate :: Brachiate (a.) Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac..

Horizon :: Horizon (n.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.

Stringed :: Stringcourse (n.) A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work..

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow..

Sole :: Sole (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Ascendant :: Ascendant (n.) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune..

Nonagesimal :: Nonagesimal (n.) The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it is intersected by the horizon..

Moonset :: Moonset (n.) The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets..

Stringhalt :: Stringer (n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like..

Offset :: Offset (n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off..

Corbel-table :: Corbel-table (n.) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them..

Range :: Range (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.

Cross :: Cross (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals..

Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..

Level :: Level (v. t.) To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct..

Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..

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