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Any one of certain lines of a vessel, model, or plan, parallel with the surface of the water at various heights from the keel.

The quality of being weatherly.

The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.

The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall.

The quality or state of being woolly.

The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.

Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections.

; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

g arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

Away from the axis or central line; eccentric. Balfour.

Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

rt of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.…

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast." Macaulay.

ments of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.

ion of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane m…

To recline, as at table. [Obs.] Bailey.