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Diagonally.

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another…

A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.

d to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

A combination of two short rectangular glass prisms cemented together at their diagonal faces so as to form a cube; -- called also optical cube. It is used in one form of photometer.

the related plant, Trigonella ornithopodioides, is also European.

The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).

Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

rned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. -- To bite in (Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. -- To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a qua…

The black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

rreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus contin…

Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. Sir T. More.

Gonorrhea. Dunglison.

A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.

r connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.] The long wagon body set on bobsleds. W. D. Howells.

The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.

ining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.