Word Meanings - ASLOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• SLOPSHOP
  A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• DECLINATOR
  1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane. 2. A dissentient. Bp. Hacket.
• SLOPPINESS
  The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
• SLOPE
  1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• SLOPWORK
  The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. No slopwork ever dropped from his pen. Froude.
• SLOP
  Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc. Slop basin, or Slop bowl, a basin or bowl for holding slops, especially for receiving the rinsings of tea or coffee cups at the table. -- Slop molding ,
• ASLANT
  Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.
• UPRIGHTLY
  In an upright manner.
• SLOPENESS
  State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.
• DECLINOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
• DECLINAL
  Declining; sloping.
• DECLINOUS
  Declinate.
• DECLINER
  He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
• SLOPSELLER
  One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.
• DIRECTION
  The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
• KESLOP
  The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell.
• MISDIRECTION
  An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.