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Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.

In a decumbent posture.

Same as Generatrix.

To drive from a bench or seat. [R.] Shak.

To unbend. [Obs.] Stirling.

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

See Colophene.

n through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum. Kent.

Ebony. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Henbane. [Obs.] Shak.

A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.

A raised work like a bench. [Obs.] Parkhurst.

The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.

Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent. Two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it. Sir H. Wotton. To move the incumbent load they try. Addison.

In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.

d four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation.

Slipping; sliding; gliding. [R.]

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.