lie obliquely
VERB
slant
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As the left side of the spindle-shaped sac grows much more quickly than the right, and as it turns considerably on its axis at the same time, it soon comes to lie obliquely.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
