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n.
The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
n.
A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
n.
Quality or state of being vertical.
a.
Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
n.
The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
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The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness.
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A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
n.
An axis; hinge; a turning point.
a.
A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.
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Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
adv.
In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.
n.
The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
v. i.
To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
a.
In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
n.
A whorl; a verticil.
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Alt. of Verticillated
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A vertical line, plane, or circle.
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of Vertex
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Vertical position; zenith.
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Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
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