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A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.

A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.

A collection made by gleaning. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. Dryden.

r obstruction. They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line. Thomson. Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away. Shak.

The act of cleaning a ship's bottom. Graving dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.

An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (Sport)

grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.

A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of a hand-hole.

Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley.

The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.

Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.

To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right. Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear. Is. xxxvii. 17.

Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively inclined." Cowper.

ng; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent. Two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it. Sir H. Wotton. To move the incumbent load they try. Addison.

A leaning; pressure; weight. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Act of leaning upon something; incumbency. [Obs.] Derham.

ion; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. "He leant forward." Dickens.

m what is removed or changed. If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes Jer. xlix. 9. These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Matt. xxiii. 23. Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed. Bacon.

To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively. My toes look through the overleather. Shak.

Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship. Marryat.