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Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500. Italic languages, the group or family of languages of ancient Italy. -- Italic order (Arch.), the compo…

Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n.

A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.

Slope; inclination. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.

A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongée of a parapet; the plongée of a shell in its course. [Sometimes written plonge.]

A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.

Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level; -- said of topography, or features of topography, as valleys, hills, etc.

facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall. [Written also revêtement (

two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. "A rising ground." Dryden.

The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge. Along the side of yon small hill. Milton.

The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent. [U. S.]

A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope. On the side of younder slanting hill. Dodsley.

y secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat. -- Span roof, a common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides. Gwilt. -- Span shackle (Naut.), a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. Ham. Nav.…

To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.

A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.