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The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] Shak.

Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. "Great barkers are no biters." Camden.

f the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. Shak.

Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.

Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.

Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

Inclined to brood. Ray.

An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of rynning water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.

ling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often mad…

Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.

Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.

Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift.

furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.