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a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting. -- Slop"ing*ly, adv. The sloping land recedes into the clouds. Cowper.

Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

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

Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

he middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered wi…

Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping. Gwill.

An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping. [Southwestern U. S.]

Declining; sloping.

Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

A descending surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

Bending down; sloping. [Obs.]

A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.)

rm of floating dock made in separate sections or caissons. -- Slip dock, a dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship. -- Wet dock, a dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate t…