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Slope :: Slope (a.) Sloping.

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

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

Dormer Window :: Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained..

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another..

Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..

Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

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

Breastheight :: Breastheight (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing..

Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..

Slant :: Slant (n.) A slanting direction or plane; a slope; as, it lies on a slant..

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..

Splayfeet :: Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them..

Pendence :: Pendence (n.) Slope; inclination.

Mansard Roof :: Mansard roof () A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one..

Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..

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..

Escarp :: Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap..

Glacier :: Glacier (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland..

Basil :: Basil (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground..

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