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adv. In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Angle + wise, OE. wise manner. ] In an angular manner; angularly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Alternately. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In any wise or way; at all. “Anywise essential.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Arch-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

, adv. [ Prob. a corruption of arriswise. See Arris. ] Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Her.) Horizontally. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Her.) Diagonally. [ 1913 Webster ]

ads. In the direction of the breadth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Breadthwise. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Her.) In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. -- of rotatory motion. dextral [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & adv. in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.
Syn. -- right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } adv. By way of, or along, the coast; following a coastline; as, coastwise winds contributed to the storm. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock; counterclockwise. Opposite of clockwise. [ Also See: sinistral. ]
Syn. -- counterclockwise, anticlockwise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. 1. On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing. 1 Pet. iii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a contrary order; conversely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With the corner in front; diagonally; not square. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. & adv. in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- of rotatory motion or spiral direction. Opposite of clockwise, or right-handed [ Narrower terms: sinistral levororotary, levorotatory ]
Syn. -- left-handed. [ PJC ]

adv. In the form of a crescent; like a crescent. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the form of a cross; across; transversely. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. After the manner of a drop; in the form of drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trickling dropwise from the cleft. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

to get a word in edgewise to succeed in expressing an opinion in a conversation, in spite of constant speech from another or others; as, he talked incessantly and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. the form edgeways is now uncommon. [ PJC ]

Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Otherwise. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. 1. On end; erectly; in an upright position. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With the end forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of fess. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. or adv. With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of a guest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Juise. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] Same as Juise. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. At least; at all events. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At leastways, or
At leastwise, at least. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with crosswise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & conj. [ See Wise, n. ] In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, and do thou likewise. Luke x. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

For he seeth that wise men die; likewise the fool and the brutish person perish. Ps. xlix. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Lengthwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. As lovers do. [ 1913 Webster ]

As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. In many different ways; variously. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ For in no wise. See Wise, n. ] Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others whose case is nowise different. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Other + wise manner. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy father was a worthy prince,
And merited, alas! a better fate;
But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In other respects. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is said, truly, that the best men otherwise are not always the best in regard of society. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In different circumstances; under other conditions; as, I am engaged, otherwise I would accept. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Otherwise, like so and thus, may be used as a substitute for the opposite of a previous adjective, noun, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me. 2 Cor. xi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her eyebrows . . . rather full than otherwise. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too wise; affectedly wise. -- O`ver*wise"ly, adv. -- O`ver*wise"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Her.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Thrifty in small matters only. Used mostly in the phrase penny-wise and pound foolish. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Righteous. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make righteous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Righteously. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Righteousness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In doom and eke in rightwisnesse. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Her.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle. [ 1913 Webster ]