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The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.

Recumbence.

Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle. -- Re*cum"bent*ly, adv.

To void excrement. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).

ecially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

In a slumbering manner.

Without slumber; sleepless.

Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade." Pope.

Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Submissive; yielding. [R.] Howell.

The quality or state of being superincumbent.

Lying or resting on something else.

Having thumbs.

To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.

Not incumbered; not burdened.

Not numbered; not counted or estimated; innumerable. Dryden.

To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

pe; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.