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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..

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

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..

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

Aslope :: Aslope (adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

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

Plongee :: Plongee (n.) A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course..

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault..

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

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..

Slant :: Slant (n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant..

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

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..

Glissade :: Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof..

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..

Bevel :: Bevel (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

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

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

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