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Coping :: Coping (n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping..

Brilliant :: Brilliant (a.) A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with

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

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

Vert :: Vert (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right..

Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..

Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..

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..

Declivity :: Declivity (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place.

Bevelled :: Bevelled (a.) Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table..

Shelving :: Shelving (a.) Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore..

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..

Crocket :: Crocket (n.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc..

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

Talus :: Talus (n.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

Declivous :: Declivous (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

Nappy :: Nappy (n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides..

Slanting :: Slanting (a.) Oblique; sloping.

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

Devexity :: Devexity (a.) A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.

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