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An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl. Totten.

he most circumspect attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors who have no inclination to approve. Rambler.

That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.

Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]

Heart; inclination; desire; will. [Obs.] Chaucer. I'd such a courage to do him good. Shak.

A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.

The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.

what it gives, and what denies Pope. To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it. J. Edwards.

Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

despite done against the Most High. Milton. In despite, in defiance of another's power or inclination. -- In despite of, in defiance of; in spite of. See under Spite. "Seized my hand in despite of my efforts to the contrary." W. Irving. -- In your despite, in defiance or contempt of you; in spite of you. [Obs.]…

The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated by a fervent spirit of devotion. Macaulay.

Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glóry.

Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

g freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.

To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes…

The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [R.]

Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. How stands your disposition to be married Shak.

The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. Milton. Bombay duck (Zoöl.), a fish. See Bummalo. -- Buffel duck, or Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. -- Duck ant (Zoöl.), a species of white ant in Jamaica whic…