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One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope. On the side of younder slanting hill. Dodsley.

In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.

r (Com.), a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.

Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden.

An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.

An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair.

Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.

Sloping; inclined.

To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.

Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social. Society is no comfort to one not sociable. Shak. What can be uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry, pensive retirements of solitude South.

Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [Obs.]

Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.

r as if in, a spire. Emerson. It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer.

Inclined to spit; spitting much. Sir H. Wotton.

The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

Intent; inclined. [Obs.] Shak.

f an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel. Brande & C.