In a slanting direction.
1832. “This is sorter a slantindickelar road, stranger, by gauly;” said he [the Yankee].—‘Memoirs of a Nullifier,’ p. 37 (Columbia, S.C.).
1833. He looked up at me slantendicler, and I looked down upon him slantendicler; and he took out a chaw of turbaccur, and said he, ‘I don’t value you that.’—‘Sketches of D. Crockett,’ p. 144.
1835. [He] makes his bivouac among the trees on the hill in the rear of Alabama Row, under a slantindicular shed, lighted up most romantically by a large watch fire.—P. H. Nicklin, ‘Letters on the Virginia Springs,’ p. 30 (Phila.).
1836. She looked a kind o’ slantindicular at him, and I think he kissed her.—Phila. Public Ledger, July 27.
1846. I blazed away, and sort a cut him [the bear] slantindicularly through his hams, and brought him down.—W. T. Porter, ed., ‘A Quarter Race in Kentucky,’ etc., p. 137.
1847. I’d shot him through the breast, but sorter slantindickler, breakin’ his shoulder blade into a perfect smash.—T. B. Thorpe, ‘The Big Bear of Arkansas: Chunkey’s Fight,’ p. 138 (Phila.).
1852. [The snowstorm] came down by spells, perpendicular,—then crossed over and “went it” slantindicular.—Weekly Oregonian, Dec. 25.
a. 1853. What gives him [the giraffe] such a “slantingdicular,” incline-planish appearance, is the superabundant architecture resting upon his forward pillars.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ iv. 258.
