Word Meanings - RECLINANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bending or leaning backward.

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• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• LEANLY
  Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• LEAN-TO
  Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n.
• LEANNESS
  The condition or quality of being lean.
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• BENDY
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.
• BENDABLE
  Capable of being bent.
• BACKWARDATION
  The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.
• BACKWARDLY
  1. Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Perversely; ill. And does he think so backwardly of me Shak.
• BENDLET
  A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• LEAN-WITTED
  Having but little sense or shrewdness.
• BENDWISE
  Diagonally.
• BACKWARD
  1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope. 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward
• LEAN
  hlinon, D. leunen, OHG. hlinen, linen, G. lehnen, L. inclinare, Gr. clivus hill, slope. sq. root40. Cf. Declivity, Climax, Incline, 1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as,
• BACKWARDNESS
  The state of being backward.
• BEND
  1. To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow. The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. Milton. 2. To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in
• LEANY
  Lean. Spenser.
• LEAN-FACED
  slender or narrow; -- said of type the letters of which have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height. W. Savage. (more info) 1. Having a thin face.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• ACHILLEAN
  Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.
• CLEANING
  1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.
• CLEANLINESS
  State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
• CREOLEAN; CREOLIAN
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. -- n.
• CLEANLY
  1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
• CLEAN
  Free from ceremonial defilement. 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison. 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the
• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• UPLEAN
  To lean or incline upon anything. Spenser.
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• HELLBENDER
  A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.