(heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
(in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
(nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
A curve.
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
verb
(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
(intransitive) To become curved.
(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
(intransitive) To change direction.
(intransitive) To submit.
(intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
(intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
(transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
(transitive) To cause to change direction.
(transitive) To force to submit.
(transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
(transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
