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Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.

Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative. [Obs.] Feltham.

n axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane. And her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. Shak.

Inclined to romp; indulging in romps. A little romping girl from boarding school. W. Irving.

Given to rude play; inclined to romp. --- Romp"ish, adv. -- Romp"ish*ness, n.

Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Bacon. Temperate climates run into moderate governments. Swift.

on of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture. He knew that policy would desincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. E. Everett.

Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. Shak. -- Rut"tish*ness, n.

Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.

wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.

Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker.

Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive. [R.] Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak.

To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense. A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. Whately.

Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant. Trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden.

To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.

hips to show the extent of the rolling and pitching of a vessel. -- Ship railway. (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for repairs. (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels overland between two water courses or harbors. -- Ship's company,…

An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs.