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Ordinate :: Ordinate (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured..

Straight-joint :: Straight-joint (a.) Having straight joints.

Straightness :: Straightness (n.) The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path..

Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it..

Broom :: Broom (n.) A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers..

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.

Disentangle :: Disentangle (v. t.) To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn..

Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Ballotade :: Ballotade (v. i.) A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out..

Simple :: Simple (a.) Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.

Square :: Square (n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work..

Ring :: Ring (n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure..

Helicoid :: Helicoid (n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it..

Orthostade :: Orthostade (n.) A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds..

Forthright :: Forthright (a.) Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man..

Pompadour :: Pompadour (n.) A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively..

Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..

Striction :: Strict (a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters..

Actinophorous :: Actinophorous (a.) Having straight projecting spines.

Irregular :: Irregular (a.) Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular..

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