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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…

To incline; to set at an angle; to titl over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.

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

To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.

severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts.

Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others. The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. Buckminster.

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.

emperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

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.

e pulley. See in the Vocabulary. -- Oblique or Scalene cone, a cone of which the axis is inclined to the plane of its base. -- Eight cone. See Cone, 1.

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

Inclined to contradict or cavil [Obs.] Sharp. -- Con`tra*dic"tious*ness, n. Norris.