Word Meanings - UPLEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To lean or incline upon anything. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to UPLEAN)
- ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - INCLINED
Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - INCLINER
One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial. - INCLINE
L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. 1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. 2. Fig.: - ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - DISINCLINE
To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined. - MISINCLINE
To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.