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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. At a slant; obliquely.
  2. prep. Obliquely over or across: lay the paddle aslant the gunwales.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a slanting or sloping direction; oblique; obliquely; not perpendicularly or at right angles.
  2. Slantingly across; athwart.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. slanting
  2. adv. at a slant
  3. prep. archaic diagonally over or across

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.
  2. prep. In a slanting direction over; athwart.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. at an oblique angle
  2. adv. over or across in a slanting direction
  3. adj. having an oblique or slanted direction

Examples

  • “In Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a young girl happily cavorts in front of the TV screen broadcasting Elizabeth II's coronation; the moment simultaneously registers a shift in how the English experience their own history and a comical awareness of how "aslant" these experiences might prove to be.”

    The Little Professor:

  • “For years, people would look aslant at me, when I would make that statement.”

    The Washington Post: Pee-wee Herman takes Manhattan

  • “Pingback by Tailfeather » Blog Archive » Olive Kitteridge and looking at someone aslant — September 9, 2009 @ 3: 40 pm”

    What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room

  • “I thought that if Henry remembered the fairy tales from his childhood, he would begin that reentering process, and it seemed to make sense that he would remember it aslant that he would remember the fairy tales in the original German.”

    Interview with Keith Donohue

  • “And in early America, African slaves invented a form of marriage, "besom wedding" or jumping the broom, in which a couple jumped over a broomstick stuck aslant in a doorway and declared themselves married.”

    The Huffington Post: Arlene M. Roberts: Committed: An Immigration Love Story

  • “           Dropping the paper on the lawn, he turned to watch as Annette rose from the passenger door, her mouth open, jaw aslant.”

    Fictionaut: Deep Pockets

  • “The snake's brow is draped aslant in the tree's glossy leaves, suggesting a comic green beret.”

    Fictionaut: Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler

  • “This is a subject I have spoken to before, but now and then, I get a notion that is either new to me, or comes at the subject slightly aslant of where I was before, so ...”

    The Magical Mastery Tour

  • “The tower had a flat roof below the dome with thick and jutting chajjas, eaves that rinsed rainwater away from the building and provided an impenetrable shade even when the sun was aslant.”

    Simon & Schuster: Shadow Princess

  • “Miss Maszkeradi had sought precisely such a gruff, ancient tree-like male all her life, to whom she could have been as faithful as to this rooted, bark-bound, impassive trunk that had a face, as in fabled forests of old, hands in pockets, and a waist aslant, in a bored pose.”

    A Different Stripe:

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  • bilby
    "QUEEN GERTRUDE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
    That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
    There with fantastic garlands did she come
    Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
    That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,..."
    - Shakespeare, 'Hamlet'. Oct 6, 2008

  • ofravens Below: a fen where water stood;
    Aslant: their hill of stinging nettle

    from 'Bucolics,' by Sylvia Plath Apr 9, 2008

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