Reclining

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Recline \Re*cline"\ (r[-e]*kl[imac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Reclined} (r[-e]*kl[imac]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reclining}.]
     [L. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. See
     {Incline}, {Lean} to incline.]
     To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in
     a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.


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           The mother
           Reclined her dying head upon his breast. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reclining \Re*clin"ing\, a. (Bot.)
        (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the
            perpendicular.
        (b) Recumbent.
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     {Reclining dial}, a dial whose plane is inclined to the
        vertical line through its center. --Davies & Peck (Math.
        Dict.).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reclining
       adj : lying down; in a position of comfort or rest [syn: {accumbent},
              {decumbent}, {recumbent}]
       n : the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "reclining":
     accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche,
     crawling, debasement, decumbency, decumbent, depression, draped,
     flat, groveling, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying,
     lying down, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration,
     reclination, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine,
     shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness,
     squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness