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Word Meanings - DECLINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Declining; sloping.

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  • 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
  • SLOPSHOP
    A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.
  • 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 ,
  • 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.
  • DECLINATE
    Bent downward or aside; bending downward in a curve; declined.
  • DECLINABLE
    Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
  • DECLINATURE
    The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
  • SLOPPY
    Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
  • SLOPING
    Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.
  • DECLINED
    Declinate.
  • KESLOP
    The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell.
  • SLIPSLOP
    Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing.

 

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