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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..

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

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

Basil :: Basil (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground..

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..

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

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..

Hang :: Hang (n.) A sharp or steep declivity or slope.

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

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

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

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..

Chinook :: Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory..

Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..

Mansard Roof :: Mansard roof () A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one..

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

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

Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) A board extending from the ridge to the eaves along the slope of the gable, and forming a close junction between the shingling of a roof and the side of the building beneath..

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

Sloped :: Sloped (imp. & p. p.) of Slop.

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