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ght angles, so as to form a right angle or right angles, as when one line crosses another perpendicularly. -- Right and left, in both or all directions. [Colloq.] -- Right and left coupling (Pipe fitting), a coupling the opposite ends of which are tapped for a right-handed screw and a left-handed screw, respectivelly.…

To cut down perpendicularly, or nearly so; as, to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock. From scarped cliff and quarried stone. Tennyson. Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain. Emerson.

The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

he vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor.

In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.

willow (Salix Babylonica) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly.