accumbent

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Such mild-eyed, accumbent, sharp-ribbed horses as now infest the curb--mere whittlings from a larger age--hang their heads at their degeneracy.

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  1. adjective Lying down; reclining.
  2. adjective Botany Lying or leaning against something: accumbent cotyledons.

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  • Such mild-eyed, accumbent, sharp-ribbed horses as now infest the curb--mere whittlings from a larger age--hang their heads at their degeneracy. —  There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
 

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  1. Latin accumbēns, accumbent-, present participle of accumbere, to recline at table : ad-, ad- + cumbere, to recline.

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  1. from Latin accumben(t-)s, present participle of accumbere: see accumb.
 

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