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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Recline \Re*cline"\ (r[-e]*kl[imac]n"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Reclined} (r[-e]*kl[imac]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reclining}.] [L. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. See {Incline}, {Lean} to incline.] To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reclining \Re*clin"ing\, adjective (Bot.) (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. (b) Recumbent.
{Reclining dial}, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reclining
adjective: lying down; in a position of comfort or rest [syn: {accumbent}, {decumbent}, {recumbent}]
noun: the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "reclining": accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, debasement, decumbency, decumbent, depression, draped, flat, groveling, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying, lying down, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration, reclination, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine, shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness, squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness
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