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In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.

s. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.

r Parallax. -- Heliocentric place, latitude, longitude, etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc., of the body as viewed from the sun.

iameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

The place or office of direction or administration. "The helm of the Commonwealth." Melmoth.

Guidance; direction. [R.]

ement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.

Having spirals of changing direction. Gray.

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

asurement, 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.

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

ection 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.

y 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.

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