V. be on one side &c adv.; flank, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate.

It is not easy to discover any particular form from the standing and recumbent stones, for they neither make a circle nor do they seem to be directed to any particular point of the compass; but it is quite possible that these monoliths were put up by Early Man as a means of recording the seasons, in somewhat the same manner as Stonehenge is an example of the orientated temple of Neolithic times.

They first tried to orientate the Mongol mind towards a direct connection with themselves, but their avarice and conceit offend all the people with whom they come into contact.

This will be so plain that the great bulk of people everywhere will not only see their changing economic relationships far more distinctly than such things have been seen hitherto, but that they will see them as they have never been seen before, definitely orientated to the threat of German world predominance.

and his brain being clear as day he went away to the woods and watersides, saying: 'Life is orientated like a temple; there are in every existence days when life streams down the nave, striking the forehead of the God.'

D'Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientate, 298.

Evidently, the stone has become somewhat displaced; for instead of being orientated as it must once have been, it now lies almost north and south.

Here by the creek's side they buried her, and (doubtless by the ship's own compass) they orientated the forest grave.