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pact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

rming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plant…

To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

scope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star…

So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.

nd of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.

Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit. And shall lay thee even with the ground. Luke xix. 44.

he prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside. -- Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. Wilhelm.

Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

th of a grade next finer than bastard. -- Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. -- Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface.

ht, and the last on the left, of a company, battalion, etc. -- Flank march, a march made parallel or obliquely to an enemy's position, in order to turn it or to attack him on the flank. -- Flank movement, a change of march by an army, or portion of one, in order to turn one or both wings of the enemy, or to take up a…

One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.

athode, for intensifying the effect. -- Principal, or Solar, focus (Opt.), the focus for parallel rays.

ndle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

. -- French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. -- French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called also garland honeysuckle. -- French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube tw…

Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.

e part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.

ty let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and CG parallel to OA, and let OB be produced to G and F. E Then BD is the sine of the arc AB; OD or EB is the cosine, AF is the tangent, CG is the cotangent, OF is the secant OG is the cosecant, AD is the versed sine, and CE is the cove…