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Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble. Not at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking. Milton.

Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden.

Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work to make men of merit suspicious of each other. Pope.

Inclined to swag; sinking, hanging, or leaning by its weight. Sir T. Browne.

Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith.

Inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.

r measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork.

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. [Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.]

Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

nsation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. Sir W. Scott.

To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.

Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.

he replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane, especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.

To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.

Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper. -- Un*so"cia*ble*ness, n. -- Un*so"cia*bly, adv.

Not willing; loath; disinclined; reluctant; as, an unwilling servant. And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, "Keep your piece nine years." Pope. -- Un*will"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*will"ing*ness, n.

Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. Hawthorne.