Recline \Re*cline"\ (r[-e]*kl[imac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Reclined (r[-e]*kl[imac]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reclining.]
[L. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. See
Incline, Lean to incline.]
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in
a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
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The mother
Reclined her dying head upon his breast. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Reclining \Re*clin"ing\, a. (Bot.)
(a) Bending or curving gradually back from the
perpendicular.
(b) Recumbent.
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Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the
vertical line through its center. --Davies & Peck (Math.
Dict.).
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
reclining
adj : lying down; in a position of comfort or rest [syn: accumbent,
decumbent, recumbent]
n : the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
WordNet (r) 2.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "reclining":
accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche,
crawling, debasement, decumbency, decumbent, depression, draped,
flat, groveling, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying,
lying down, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration,
reclination, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine,
shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness,
squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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