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Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..

Swing :: Swing (n.) Swaying motion from one side or direction to the other; as, some men walk with a swing..

Electrepeter :: Electrepeter (n.) An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.

Fan :: Fan (n.) A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind..

Sforzato :: Sforzato (a.) Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /..

High :: High (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high..

Helm :: Helm (n.) One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director..

Easterly :: Easterly (adv.) Toward, or in the direction of, the east..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..

Reverted :: Reverted (a.) Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S..

Angle :: Angle (n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle..

Prescription :: Prescription (n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed..

Instruct :: Instruct (v. t.) To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury..

Guide :: Guide (v. t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator.

Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..

Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (a.) Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body..

Wide :: Wide (superl.) Of a certain measure between the sides; measuring in a direction at right angles to that of length; as, a table three feet wide..

Range :: Range (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

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