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(1):

(v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.

(2):

(adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.

(3):

(adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

(4):

(a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; - chiefly used in technical phrases.

(5):

(v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.

(6):

(n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

(7):

(adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.

(8):

(v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.