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Glacier :: Glacier (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland..

Splay :: Splay (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc..

Gradient :: Gradient (n.) A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.

Bankside :: Bankside (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam..

Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

Herringbone :: Herringbone (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions..

Facing :: Facing (n.) A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface..

Escarp :: Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap..

Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east..

Crest :: Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.

Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north..

Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

Cant :: Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.

Splayfeet :: Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them..

Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.

Corbiestep :: Corbiestep (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

Lean-to :: Lean-to (a.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof.

Declivity :: Declivity (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity..

Slant :: Slant (v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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