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Having spirals of changing direction. Gray.

the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

rfection of man. Hooker. Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. "Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither." Knolles.

ity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.

Turned in the same direction with something else.

earing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.

eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty- four hours.

alance any weight, however great; or the law of the equality of pressure of fluids in all directions. -- Hydrostatic press, a machine in which great force, with slow motion, is communicated to a large plunger by means of water forced into the cylinder in which it moves, by a forcing pump of small diameter, to which th…

placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution. -- In idle, in vain. [Obs.] "God saith, thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord God in idle." Chaucer.

Done by express direction; not involuntary; communded. [Obs.] Those imperate acts, wherein we see the empire of the soul. Sir M. Hale.

Not according to or in, the direction of the poles. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface. In equal incidences there is a considerable inequality of refractions. Sir I. Newton. Angle of incidence, the angle which a ray of light, or the line of incidence of a body, falling on any surface, makes with a perpendicular to that surface…

A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed.