Word Meanings - PERPENDICLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.

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• HANGNAIL
  A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• PLUMB
  A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below. Plumb bob. See Bob, 4. -- Plumb joint, in sheet-metal work, a lap joint,
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• STRAIGHT-PIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak.
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• HANGDOG
  A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• STRAIGHT-LINED
  Having straight lines.
• PLUMBAGE
  Leadwork
• HANG
  Hanging. The use of hanged is preferable to that of hung, when reference is had to death or execution by suspension, and it is also i., fr. h, v. t. ; akin to OS. hang, v. i. D. hangen, v. t. & i., G. hangen, v. i, hängen, v. t, Isel hanga, v.
• STRAIGHTFORWARD
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.
• PLUMBER
  One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.
• HANGMAN
  One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.
• STRAIGHTLY
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• PLUMBIFEROUS
  Producing or containing lead. Kirwan.
• STRAIGHTWAYS
  Straightway.
• PLUMBAGINEOUS
  Pertaining to natural order of gamopetalous herbs, of which plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.
• HANG-BY
  A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• UNHANG
  1. To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room. 2. To remove from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• WHANGHEE
  See WANGHEE
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• OVERHANG
  1. To impend or hang over. Beau. & Fl. 2. To hang over; to jut or project over. Pope.