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

Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes..

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

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

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

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..

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