Horizontals [noun]

Above all, beware of trusting to the supposed verticals or horizontals in built work, especially in tracery.

The curved horizontals for the back should now be prepared and steamed as described on another page.

All horizontals which are at 45 to the picture plane are drawn to the point of distance.

Horizontals parallel to the base of the picture are also parallel to that base in the picture.

I may read it as a series of horizontals, or of verticals, or of diagonals, according as I attend to it.

The perpendicular and sloping lines of the building are read downward, the horizontals from left to right.

This point of distance becomes then the measuring point for all horizontals at right angles to the picture plane.

All horizontals which are at right angles to the picture plane are drawn to the point of sight.

All horizontals which are at 45, or half a right angle to the picture plane, are drawn to the point of distance.

All horizontals forming any other angles but the above are drawn to some other points on the horizontal line.