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Parallelogrammatic :: Parallelogrammatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion..

Cross :: Cross (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.

Worsted :: Worsted (n.) Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like..

Unconformity :: Unconformity (n.) Want of parallelism between strata in contact.

Counterguard :: Counterguard (n.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire..

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page..

Vergeboard :: Vergeboard (n.) The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard..

Gules :: Gules (n.) The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red..

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath..

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops..

Contrate :: Contrate (a.) Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it..

Harmony :: Harmony (n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels..

Grating :: Grating (n.) A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating..

Equatorial :: Equatorial (n.) An instrument consisting of a telescope 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 or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockw

Parallelistic :: Parallelistic (a.) Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.

Verriculate :: Verriculate (a.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches..

Analogue :: Analogue (n.) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group..

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