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Webster 1913 Edition


Reclining

Re-clin′ing

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Adj.
(Bot.)
(a)
Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
(b)
Recumbent.
Reclining dial
,
a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center.
Davies & Peck
(Math. Dict.)
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Webster 1828 Edition


Reclining

RECLI'NING

,
ppr.
Leaning back or sideways; resting; lying.

Definition 2024


reclining

reclining

English

Adjective

reclining (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.
    a reclining armchair

Verb

reclining

  1. present participle of recline

Noun

reclining (plural reclinings)

  1. The act of one who reclines.
    • 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart. (page 233)
      Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.