Word Meanings - VERTILINEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Straight; rectilinear.

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• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• RECTILINEARITY
  The quality or state of being rectilinear. Coleridge.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• STRAIGHT-PIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak.
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• STRAIGHT-LINED
  Having straight lines.
• STRAIGHTFORWARD
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.
• STRAIGHTLY
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• STRAIGHTWAYS
  Straightway.
• STRAIGHTFORTH
  Straightway.
• STRAIGHTEN
  1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose
• STRAIGHTHORN
  An orthoceras.
• STRAIGHT-SPOKEN
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. Lowell.
• STRAIGHTEDGE
  A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
• STRAIGHTNESS
  The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
• STRAIGHT
  A variant of Strait, a. Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. Sir J. Mandeville.
• RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
  Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.