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ncorrectly pentagraph.] Skew pantograph, a kind of pantograph for drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original figure; -- also called plagiograph.

Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions. Southey. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness, n.

Inclined or tending to paralysis. Paralytic secretion (Physiol.), the fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic saliva.

Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial. Ye have been partial in the law. Mal. ii. 9.

Inclined to eat; hungry. [Colloq.] "When shall I feel peckish again" Beaconsfield.

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.

Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.

Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. [Obs.] Bacon.

Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.

d, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. Locke.

ise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law. [I am] little inclined to practice on others, and as little that others should practice on me. Sir W. Temple.

Inclined; tending by nature. [R.]

Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees. Kane.

Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton.

To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend. [R.] Shak. We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down. Barrow.

Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.

Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.