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• Vertical

  ·noun Vertical position; zenith. II. Vertical ·noun A vertical line, plane, or circle. III. Vertic...

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• prime

  prīmē, adv., v. primus fin. C. ...

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• Prime

  ·adj Lecherous; lustful; lewd. II. Prime ·adj To mark with a prime mark. III. Prime ·adj To trim o...

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• prime

  Bang up. Quite the thing. Excellent. Well done. She's a prime piece; she is very skilful in the vene...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• prime

  Primely; in a first rate manner. This is one of the many English adjectives which, in our vulgar lan...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• prime

  The fore part of the artificial day; that is, the first quarter after sunrise. ...

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• vertical angles

  Opposite angles made by two lines cutting or crossing each other, and are always equal. (See angle o...

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• vertical circles

  Great circles of the sphere intercepting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon...

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• vertical fire

  In artillery, that directed upward at such an angle as that it will fall vertically, or nearly so, t...

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• vertical force

  The centre of displacement is also that of the centre of vertical force that the water exerts to sup...

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• vertical plan

  See orthographic projection. ...

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• Prime Donne

  ·pl of Prima donna. ...

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• prime good

  excellent. North. ...

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• prime, to

  To make ready a gun, mine, &c., for instantaneous firing. Also, to pierce the cartridge with the p...

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• angle of the vertical

  The difference between the geographical and geocentric latitudes of a place upon the earth's surface...

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