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Aslope :: Aslope (adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.

Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

Die :: Die (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face..

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

Herringbone :: Herringbone (a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions..

Corbiestep :: Corbiestep (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

Calade :: Calade (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To slope down; as, hanging grounds..

Glissade :: Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps..

Slope :: Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment..

Subaltern :: Subalpine (a.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line..

Slope :: Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.

Slopeness :: Slopeness (n.) State of being slope.

Valley :: Valley (n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.

Clinometer :: Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level..

Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part..

Versant :: Versant (n.) The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect..

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