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Word Meanings - LOPPY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat lop; inclined to lop.

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  • SOMEWHAT
    1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
  • INCLINING
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  • INCLINED
    Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
  • INCLINATORY
    Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
  • INCLINATION
    The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23ยบ 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
  • INCLINNOMETER
    An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
  • INCLINABLENESS
    The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
  • INCLINER
    One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.
  • INCLINABLE
    1. Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley. 2. Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth. Whatsoever other sins he may be inclinable to. South.
  • INCLINE
    L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. 1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. 2. Fig.:
  • DISINCLINE
    To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined.
  • DISINCLINATION
    The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.
  • MISINCLINE
    To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.

 

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