Herringbone: alternatives and connections

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upw…

A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally…

Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of th…

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ fro…

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

The young of the common herring; also, a small species of herring; the sprat.

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into…

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines,…

Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around paralle…

Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the sam…