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

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..

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

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

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

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

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

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..

Crest :: Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.

Breastheight :: Breastheight (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing..

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..

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

Valley :: Valley (n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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