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ound whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).

State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.

Obliquely. [Obs.] Carew.

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

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

entral line of any design. Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. -- Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. -- Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a n…

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

A declivity or slope, as of a hill. [R.] Dryden.

A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank.

To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. Cowper. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. Shak. Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. Wordsworth. To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. Tyndall.…

A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill. [Scot.] Burns.