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"""glance " :: Glance (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. Your arrow hath glanced..

Directive :: Directive (a.) Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way..

Explicitness :: Explicitness (n.) The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

Steerageway :: Steerage (n.) That by which a course is directed.

Eye :: Eye (n.) The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence..

Aslope :: Aslope (adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

Pipe :: Pipe (v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle..

Oreoselin :: Oreoselin (n.) A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition..

Directly :: Directly (adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.

Redirect :: Redirect (a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination..

Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.

Healthward :: Healthward (a. & adv.) In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency..

Providential :: Providential (a.) Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape..

Latitudinal :: Latitudinal (a.) Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

Slant :: Slant (v. t.) To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line..

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck..

Pound :: Pound (n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward..

Great :: Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc..

First-hand :: First-hand (a.) Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent..

Hip :: Hip (n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions..

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