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Sloping :: Sloping (a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting..

Prone :: Prone (a.) Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level..

Weathered :: Weathered (a.) Made sloping, so as to throw off water; as, a weathered cornice or window sill..

Hope :: Hope (n.) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

Rafter :: Rafter (n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post..

Backhand :: Backhand (a.) Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

Acclivous :: Acclivous (a.) Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

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

Hip :: Hip (n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions..

Surf :: Surf (n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach..

Pendice :: Pendice (n.) A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse.

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..

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

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)..

Desk :: Desk (n.) A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath..

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase..

Slant :: Slant (v. i.) Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique..

Port :: Port (v. t.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms..

Basin :: Basin (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake..

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