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

Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Backhand :: Backhand (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

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

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..

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..

Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

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

Dormer Window :: Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained..

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

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

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part..

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

Versant :: Versant (n.) The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect..

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

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

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

Slopeness :: Slopeness (n.) State of being slope.

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

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