RECLINE

v. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc., to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand. The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast. Dryden.

2.
v.

To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.

3.
v.

To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.

4.
a.

Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.] They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers. Milton.


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