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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “RECUMB”

RECUMB v.
To lean; to recline; to repose. [Obs.] J. Allen (1761).
RECUMBENCE n.
The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
RECUMBENCY n.
Recumbence.
RECUMBENT a.
Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle. -- Re*cum"bent*ly, adv.
BED v.
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair." Shak.
CUBATORY a.
Lying down; recumbent. [R.]
CUMBENT a.
Lying down; recumbent. J. Dyer.
DECUMBENT a.
Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.
FALL v.
To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 10.
INCUMBENT a.
Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent. Two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it. Sir H. Wotton. To move the incumbent load they try. Addison.
PHALANX n.
ess and solidity of a union. At present they formed a united phalanx. Macaulay. The sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, All huddling into phalanx, stood and gazed. Cowper.
RAISE v.
To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job xiv. 12.
RECLINE v. 2 definitions
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc., to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand. The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast. Dryden.
RECLINING a.
Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).
RECUBATION n.
Recumbence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
SIT v.
a preacher; to sit under good preaching. -- To sit up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. "He that was dead sat up, and began to speak." Luke vii. 15.
UP adv.
From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied. But they…