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Word Meanings - ASLOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

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  • BACON
    The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
  • DECLINATION
    The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
  • BACONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
  • SLOPSHOP
    A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • DECLINATOR
    1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket.
  • SLOPPINESS
    The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
  • SLOPE
    1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings
  • DECLINE
    décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
  • SLOPWORK
    The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. No slopwork ever dropped from his pen. Froude.
  • SLOP
    Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. Slop basin, or Slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. -- Slop molding ,
  • ASLANT
    Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.
  • UPRIGHTLY
    In an upright manner.
  • SLOPENESS
    State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.
  • DECLINOMETER
    An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
  • DECLINAL
    Declining; sloping.
  • DECLINOUS
    Declinate.
  • DECLINER
    He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
  • SLOPSELLER
    One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.
  • DIRECTION
    The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
  • KESLOP
    The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell.
  • MISDIRECTION
    An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
  • INDIRECTION
    Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.

 

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