oblique

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I raise my head; right-oblique is a battery it is hidden in smoke; again I see the guns and the horses and the men; they load and fire, load and fire A round shot strikes the ground in our front ... rises ... falls rises--goes over.

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  1. adjective Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.
  2. adjective Mathematics Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.
  3. adjective Botany Having sides of unequal length or form: an oblique leaf.

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  • The spermatic cord may then be easily exposed under the edge of the internal oblique, and the forefinger of the left hand inserted on the cord, and thus beneath the internal oblique and transversalis muscles, the peritoneum being quite safe below On the finger these muscles may be safely divided to the full extent of the external incision. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • The tendon of the external oblique, d, passes altogether in front of the rectus; that of the internal oblique is split opposite the linea semilunaris into two layers, which enclose the rectus between them as they pass to be inserted into the linea alba. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • The complete kind may be either transverse or oblique, and are most commonly denticulated. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • They are generally very oblique, are often comminuted, and though more usually involving the shaft of the bone will in some cases extend to the upper end and into the articular head Symptoms._--There is ordinarily considerable displacement in consequence of the overlapping of the broken ends of the bone, and this of course causes more or less shortening of the limb. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Proud Lydian women, who believe yourselves beautiful, but for Nyssia's reserve you would appear, even to your lovers, as ugly as the oblique-eyed and thick-lipped slaves of Nahasi and Kush. —  King Candaules
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oblīquus.

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  1. from French oblique = Spanish oblicuo = Portuguese Italian obliquo, from Latin obliquus, slanting, awry, oblique, sidelong, from ob, before, near, + (Late Latin) liquis (scarcely used), slanting, bent; cf. Russian luka, a bend, Lithuanian leukti, bend.
  2. = French obliquer, march obliquely, = Spanish oblicuar = Portuguese obliquar = Italian obliquare, direct or drive obliquely, from Latin obliquare, bend, turn away, from obliquus, oblique, awry: see oblique, adjective
 

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