Definition of "horizontals" [horizontals]

• Plural form of horizontal. (noun)

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• "_left, _ had become habitual perceptions in dealing with food and fuel, the effective aim of a stone, the satisfactory flight of an arrow, would be discovered to depend upon more or less of what we call horizontals and perpendiculars, curves and angles; and the stability of a fibrous tissue upon the intervals of crossing and recrossing, the rythmical or symmetrical arrangements revealed by the hand or eye."
• "If we must have a slang for the flora of the brook garden we will term them "horizontals" -- the plants that lie flat on the water surface, and only use their stems as cables to anchor them to the bottom of the stream."
• "He tells an Origins story of #Occupy Wall Street in which a group of activists he describes as "horizontals -- people more sympathetic with anarchist principles of organization, non-hierarchical forms of direct democracy, and direct action" split off from a demonstration originally organized by what he somewhat disdainfully calls "verticals -- that is, the sort of people whose idea of political action is to march around with signs under the control of one or another top-down protest movement.""