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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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Dip :: Dip (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction..

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..

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

Bray :: Bray (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling..

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