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The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.

Inclination; disposition. On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke.

Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation. Bp. Burnet.

Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

Of or pertaining to a spline. Splining machine, a machine tool for cutting grooves, key seats, or slots; a slotting machine.

The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.

The state of being accumbent or reclining. [R.]

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

A color inclining to purple.

Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. Anticlinal line, Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line from which strata dip in opposite directions, as from the ridge of a roof. -- Anticlinal vertebra (Anat.), one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the n…

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.

A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall- sided.

A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

e of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

Same as Bush, a lining.

coal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

ass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.