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the base; slanting; inclined. It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. Cheyne.

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope.

Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan. -- Occult qu…

To meet; to clash. [Obs.] The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley.

Resembling an eye.

A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

Having eight eyes. Derham.

Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

By the eye, or by actual sight.

Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines. Holland.

Furnished with eyes.

In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble.

One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.

A combining form from L. oculus the eye.

Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.

An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud.

A glance of the eye; an amorous look. [Obs.] She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks. Shak.

An eye, bud, or shoot, as of a plant; an oilet. [Obs.] Holland.

To strike against; to attack; to assail. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.