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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..

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

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..

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..

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

Slopewise :: Slopewise (adv.) Obliquely.

Bevel :: Bevel (v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

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

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

Lean-to :: Lean-to (a.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof.

Slope :: Slope (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault..

Dip :: Dip (n.) Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.

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