Word of the Day: Catachrestical
To walk obliquely.
1. To look obliquely upon; to notice slightly. [Not in use.]
2. To shape or form in an oblique way. [Not in use.]
Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
2. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
3. To throw or hurl obliquely.
A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
2. To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.
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