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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Slope

Slope (slope)
n.(?)
Slope
[Formed (like abode fr. abide) from OE. slipen. See Slip, v. i.]
  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 the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay.

    Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).

    * A slope, considered as descending, is a declivity; considered as ascending, an acclivity.

    Slope of a plane (Geom.), the direction of the plane; as, parallel planes have the same slope.

Slope

Slope (slope)
a.
Slope
  1. Sloping.
    "Down the slope hills." Milton.

    A bank not steep, but gently slope. Bacon.

Slope

Slope (slope)
adv.
Slope
  1. In a sloping manner.
    [Obs.] Milton.

Slope

Slope (slope)
v. t.
Slope
  1. To form with a slope] to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

Slope

Slope (slope)
v. i.
Slope
  1. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
  2. To depart; to disappear suddenly.
    [Slang]

Slope

Slope (slope)
n.
Slope
  1. The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.












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