The lamp stood between him and the company: Heywood alone sawand with a shock of amazementthat he did not print vertically as with a brush, but scrawled horizontally.

The stove was in a room on the floor above the offices labelled as Mr. Q. Karkeek's; its pipe, supported by wire stays, went straight up nearly to the grimy ceiling, and then turned horizontally and disappeared through a clumsy hole in the scorched wall.

horizontally &c adj.

Gates, closing perpendicularly or horizontally in frames moving without friction on a perpendicular or horizontal axis, can be made in this way.

If a piece of bamboo is split down to the joint in strips, and the strips be bound together with others horizontally interlaced, it makes a conical basket.

Carry the hand to the shoulder; straighten and hold the arm horizontally, thrusting it in direction of march.

Extend the arm horizontally toward the platoon leader; describe small circles with the hand.

Extend the arm horizontally toward the platoon leader; swing the hand up and down from the wrist.

A person undergoing it was tied to a board which was supported horizontally on two trestles.

The smaller boys line the sides of the jump and pour out at the word of the judge on to the steep landing-slope like a lot of little goblins, jumping on their Skis horizontally to flatten away any track or hole made by a jumper who has failed to jump perfectly.

" The tail should be set on low, jut out rather straight, then turn downwards, the end pointing horizontally.

Joe exclaimed, at sight of four taut ropes entering the water almost horizontally from her bow.

Now can you hold them out horizontally at arm's length, forward and then sideways?

It is astonishing how readily our classes pick up any novelty brought into town by a strolling company,holding the body out horizontally from an upright pole, or hanging by the back of the head, or touching the head to the heels, though this last is oftener tried than accomplished.

The wheat having been strewn on the barn floor, the labourer held the handstaff in both hands, swung it over his head, and brought the swingle down horizontally on to the heads of ripe corn.

"I've never been on an elevator that moved horizontally before.

They spread out horizontally, and each branch sends out a number of rootlets that at first hang from it like slender cords and wave about in the wind.

Solitary trees are sometimes seen in this part of the country, and the branches, extending themselves horizontally to a great distance, spread out into a spacious head, which gives them a very majestic appearance.

Generally the roots of pine trees are small, compared with the size of the trunks, and spread horizontally instead of descending far into the ground.

The branches are thrown out horizontally from the parent trunk.

People occasionally possess the power of voluntary action with the muscles of the nose, and can move it horizontally, or to the right and left,draw it up or protrude it,so as to make it take any position they please.

They drilled a hole about two feet horizontally to blast out this bench.

A straight pole was set up in the centre of this building, the upper end fixed by a wooden pin to the top of the couple, and the lower end in an oblong trink in the earth or floor; and lastly, another pole was set across horizontally, having both ends tapered, one end of which was supported in a hole in the side of the perpendicular pole, and the other in a similar hole in the couple leg.

Adjusting specimen in machine: The specimen is laid horizontally upon the platform of the machine and a steel bearing plate placed on its upper surface immediately beneath the centre of the movable head.

When the form with a tenon is used the under cut is extended a short distance horizontally into the block to prevent any compression from below.