Word Meanings - DECLINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bent downward or aside; bending downward in a curve; declined.

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• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• 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
• DECLINATOR
  1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• 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,
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• DOWNWARD
  1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source;
• DECLINOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
• BENDY
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.
• BENDABLE
  Capable of being bent.
• DECLINAL
  Declining; sloping.
• DECLINOUS
  Declinate.
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
• DECLINER
  He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
• BENDLET
  A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• DECLINATE
  Bent downward or aside; bending downward in a curve; declined.
• BENDWISE
  Diagonally.
• 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.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.
• HELLBENDER
  A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.
• SEASIDE
  The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.
• PREBEND
  praebenda, from L. praebere to hold forth, afford, contr. fr. praehibere; prae before + habere to have, hold. See Habit, and cf. 1. A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral
• PREBENDARY
  1. A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook. 2. A prebendaryship. Bailey.
• PREBENDAL
  Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.