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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry, a carpenters' plumb-line and level used as a bearing.
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Sed oc illud quis mihi expedire poflit, hunC jnoncem Corycum juxca calculum Melae» qixi ei decem fiadiorum clivum ab una parce, & ab alcera duodecim fla* diorum defcenfum cribuic, aldorem esfe monce Pelio, cui tanthm mille ducencorum & quinquaginca pasfuum. fi ve de« cem ftadiorum perpendiculum cribuic Dicaearchus?
Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres: cum Petri Joannis Olivarii Valentini, viri in ... Pomponius Mela , Ermolao Barbaro, C . Julius Solinus 1782
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Ehwald: "adiumento primario erat R. Ehwaldi, doctrinae Ouidianae iudicis peritissimi, uere aureus libellus ... in quo excussis perpensisque codicibus poetaeque locutione ad perpendiculum exacta rectam Ponticarum edendarum normam uir doctus stabilire instituit '(viii).
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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When applied to a ilem or branch, it is not taken (hicliy, but is fo called, when it approaches to a perpendi - cular with the ground — fere ad perpendiculum ft - attollens.
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