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entral line of any design. Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. -- Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. -- Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a n…

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

A declivity or slope, as of a hill. [R.] Dryden.

A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.…

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill. [Scot.] Burns.

A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Fairfax.

The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garnison lean in firing.

he middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered wi…

A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

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 made of strips or pieces of carpet. -- Camp…

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