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Treadmill :: Treadmill (n.) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt..

Sprawl :: Sprawl (v. i.) To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.

Stringed :: Stringcourse (n.) A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work..

Tautochrone :: Tautochrone (n.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone..

Back :: Back (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage..

Level :: Level (n.) A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point..

Declinator :: Declinator (n.) An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.

Flighter :: Flighter (n.) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor..

Dip :: Dip (v. i.) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip..

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.

Barker''s Mill :: Barker's mill () A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis..

Horizon :: Horizon (n.) The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.

Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification..

Amplitude :: Amplitude (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object.

Arc :: Arc (n.) The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night..

Blink :: Blink (v. i.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

Low :: Low (adv.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian..

Heave :: Heave (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode..

Horoscope :: Horoscope (n.) The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment..

Lie :: Lie (adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin..

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