the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Slope
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Sloping.
(2):
(v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(n.) The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
(7):
(adv.) In a sloping manner.
(8):
(v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Slope'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/slope.html. 1828.
