No. 9 monitor has another set of geometrical definitions on the same principle, as a perpendicular line, a horizontal line, an oblique line, parallel lines, curved lines, diverging or converging lines, an obtuse angle, a circle.

"Putting after them the oblique case, agreeable to the French construction.

The lower or curved end of the oblique rod rests against the boss of one of the upper rollers.

They were exposed to an oblique fire from the batteries on the hills on both sides, as well as to a direct fire of musketry.

But already he was a gigantic and florid person, so tall that the heads of few men reached to his shoulder; a person of handsome exterior, high featured and blond, having a narrow small head, and vivid light blue eyes, and the chest of a stallion; a person whose left eyebrow had an odd oblique droop, so that the stupendous boy at his simplest appeared to be winking the information that he was in jest.

The whole time that this gale lasted, the sea was covered with a remarkable quantity of galères or physalides, (physalis pelasgica) which arranged, for the most part, in straight lines, and in two or three files, cut at an angle the direction of the waves, and seemed at the same time to present their crest or sail to the wind, in an oblique manner, as if to be less exposed to its impulse.

Here the main burrow is very nearly perpendicular, there being but one oblique opening having a very small mound, and the main mound is somewhat wider than long.

Suddenly she saw Androvsky as some strange and ghastly figure of legend; as the wandering Jew met by a traveller at cross roads, and distinguished for an instant by an oblique flash of lightning; as the shrouded Arab of the Eastern tale, who announces coming disaster to the wanderers in the desert by beating a death-roll on a drum amid the sands.

Paddle wheels, details of, structure and operation of; slip of; centre of pressure of; rolling circle; action of oblique floats; rule for proportioning paddle wheels; benefits of large floats.

All the other rollers, however, are provided with oblique flutes, such flutes making a small angle with the horizontal.

The swelling already showed to his oblique gaze.

" Mount, who had been furtively licking his lips and casting oblique glances at the bread and cheese, fell to at a nod from me.

They are an endeavour to express that perplexity, which one feels at any alteration, even supposed for the better, in a beloved object; with a little oblique grudging at Time, who cannot bestow new graces without taking away some portion of the older ones, which we can ill miss.

In the mean time she listened with the deepest attention to every thing that dropped either from the physician or the nurse, hoping to collect as it were from some oblique hint, the intelligence which she had not courage expressly to require.

His conduct was not the limit of the law, nor did treasonable excess begin where prudence or principle taught him to stop short, though this was the oblique inference liable to be drawn from his line of defence.

Lord Folkestone condemned with great earnestness the expression in the preamble that the bill was dictated "by the royal concern for the honor and dignity of the crown," as implying a doctrine that an alliance of a subject with a branch of the royal family is dishonorable to the crowna doctrine which he denounced as "an oblique insult" to the whole people, and which, as such, "the representatives of the people were bound to oppose."

[Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling &c v.; knight's move at chess.

Either pulley may be rotated, however, by moving the handle to a oblique position.

In oblique profile the Wilbur twin could glance across the fronts in turn of Harvey D. Whipple, of Gideon Whipple, his father; of Sharon Whipple, his uncle; and of Juliana Whipple, sole offspring of Sharon.

" A tragedy was inferred in that oblique reference.

The water forced upward by the centrifugal action of the screw will, by impinging on the overhanging stern, press the vessel forward in the water, just in the same way as is done by the wind when acting on an oblique sail.

[Illustration: FIG. 14.Failure of short column by oblique shear.

Or, with a little more care, the newer mode may be followed of carving oblique slices from the centre, beginning at the bone near the tail, and cutting the slices through the joint, thus mingling the fat and lean.

She had a little purse of embroideryher own workin her hand; and she stole lightly to the bedside, with her peculiar oblique smile, and evidently thinking that her sister was asleep.

The cloth passes over the oblique board, being guided by the discs shown, to the upper part of the carrier where it passes between the two bars.