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int; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one. Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion. Jer. Taylor.

The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. [R.] The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.

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

Quality or state of being vertical.

ous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.

The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.

In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]

treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

tric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

adow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

t; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

on her beam ends, to incline, as a vessel, so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.

Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.