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Inclining forward or toward. South.

e or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood. When morn Purples the east. Milton. Reclining soft in blissful bowers, Purpled sweet with springing flowers. Fenton.

Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.

Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.] They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers. Milton.

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

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

Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc. Bacon.

Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.

A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc. [Written also sarsenet.] Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. Shak.

barrel. See under Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, under Dutch. -- Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.

for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.

A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. Shak. "Shelving arches." Addison.

Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish. [Obs.] Chaucer. [Egypt] hath many shrewd havens, because of the great rocks that ben strong and dangerous to pass by. Sir J. Mandeville. Every of this happy number That have endured…

Inclining to one sidel directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

A twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings.

Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; - - opposed to dextral.

plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing. Skin friction, Skin resistance (Naut.), the friction, or resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel. -- Skin graft (Surg.), a small portion of skin…