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al, constructed of such material as allows the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination. -- Roof plate. (Arch.) See Plate, n., 10.

tion, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove, between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in…

Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.

s are contained by the same number of similar planes, similarly situated, and having like inclination to one another.

n; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness. [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. Franklin.

Amorous glance or inclination. [Obs.] "A smickering to our young lady." Dryden.

Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.

The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

To suggest; to prompt. [R.] "The submonishing inclinations of my senses." T. Granger.

Taste; relish; inclination; liking. [Colloq.] I have no swallow for it. Massinger.

An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.

Inclination; will; disposition; desire. [Obs.] They rather counseled you to your talent than to your profit. Chaucer.

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

. Cowper. He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations. Macaulay.

If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South.

Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. Full tilt, with full force. Dampier.

Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast. Trend of an anchor. (Naut.) (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) The angle made by the line of…

To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something. "Expert when to advance, or…