Instead, they were set forth later in the Bill of Rights, comprised of the first ten. amendments to the Constitution. A bill of rights was demanded by many states in return for their ratification. of the Constitution, which they felt needed to outline individual liberties as well as government structure.
Oblique muscle. (Anat.) a muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles; - applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.
4. a doubly convex, transparent body in the eye, behind the pupil, that focuses incident light on the retina. 5. a body of rock or ore that is thick in the middle and thinner toward the edges, similar in shape to a biconvex lens.