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Slope :: Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment..

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

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

Catchwork :: Catchwork (n.) A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.

Curb Roof :: Curb roof () A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof..

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

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

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds..

Esplanade :: Esplanade (n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country..

Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

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

Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

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..

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Talus :: Talus (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

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

Bent :: Bent (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill..

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..

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

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