Word Meanings - DECLINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Declining; sloping.

Related words: (words related to DECLINAL)

• 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
• SLOPSHOP
  A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
• 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 ,
• 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.
• DECLINATE
  Bent downward or aside; bending downward in a curve; declined.
• DECLINABLE
  Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
• DECLINATURE
  The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
• SLOPPY
  Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
• SLOPING
  Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.
• DECLINED
  Declinate.
• KESLOP
  The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell.
• SLIPSLOP
  Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.