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plumb

(v): measure the depth of something

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(v): express as a number or measure or quantity

(v): weight with lead

(v): weight down with a load

(v): examine thoroughly and in great depth

(v): examine minutely

(v): adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical

(v): alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard

(adv): completely; used as intensifiers

(adv): conforming to the direction of a plumb line

(adv): exactly

(adj): exactly vertical

(adj): vs. inclined) (vs. horizontal), perpendicular -- (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line

(n): the metal bob of a plumb line

(n): a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string

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7 months ago Minerva said:

Mrs Howe was acted by the springs I set at work: her daughter was moving for me, and yet imagined herself plumb against me...

Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

about 1 year ago brtom said:

Molly looks out of plumb.
Joyce, Ulysses, 8

about 1 year ago brtom said:

The fruition of beauty is no chance of miss or hit—it is as inevitable as life—it is exact and plumb as gravitation.
Whitman, Preface 1855

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