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

Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..

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..

Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..

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..

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..

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

Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right..

Calade :: Calade (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches..

Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..

Bray :: Bray (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling..

Berme :: Berme (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank..

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..

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction..

Side :: Side (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge..

Subaltern :: Subalpine (a.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line..

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

Die :: Die (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face..

Pendence :: Pendence (n.) Slope; inclination.

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