Vocabulary Word
Word: oblique
Definition: indirect; slanting (deviating from the perpendicular or from a straight line); Ex. oblique reference
Definition: indirect; slanting (deviating from the perpendicular or from a straight line); Ex. oblique reference
Sentences Containing 'oblique'
I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.
When the position of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is so too: for in this magnet, the forces always act in lines parallel to its direction.
By this oblique motion, the island is conveyed to different parts of the monarch’s dominions.
And thus, by changing the situation of the stone, as often as there is occasion, the island is made to rise and fall by turns in an oblique direction, and by those alternate risings and fallings (the obliquity being not considerable) is conveyed from one part of the dominions to the other.
As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
They went towards the extreme stern, on the ship's lee side, where the deck, with the oblique energy of the wind, was now almost dipping into the creamy, sidelong-rushing sea.
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