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The love we bear our friends . . .

Hath in it certain oblique ends.

Drayton.

This mode of oblique research, when a more
direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our
power.

De Quincey.

Then would be closed the restless, oblique
eye.

That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy.

Wordworth.

3. Not direct in descent; not following the
line of father and son; collateral.

His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in
an oblique but weak.

Baker.

Oblique angle, Oblique
ascension, etc. See under
Angle,Ascension, etc. -- Oblique
arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at
right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence
askew. -- Oblique bridge, a skew bridge.
See under Bridge, n. -- Oblique
case (Gram.), any case except the nominative.
See Case, n.

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