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That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a.

See under Dome.

Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.

Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.

That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.

The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.

A young cod; also, a hake.

The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

A very pure form of gelatin.

A small hill or mount. [Obs.] And watered park, full of fine collines and ponds. Evelyn.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.

An embrace; dalliance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

With embraces. [Obs.] Gascoigne.