inclining

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  1. Disposition; inclination. [Rare.] Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2.
  2. Side; party. Hold your hands, Both you of my inclining, and the rest. Shak., Othello, i. 2.

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  • This is to be contrasted with non-linear pricing, whose examples include an inclining or declining block rate, in which the price per unit varies with the numbers of units consumed. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • This four wheel drive feature allows climbing wheelchairs to go on surfaces that other wheelchairs only dream off, surfaces like grass, gravel, or cement with equal ease; additionally slopes inclining or declining are no challenge for the climbing wheelchair. —  Article Source
  • The ears are set wide apart on the skull, inclining outwards, sensitive in their use and pricked when alert, the leather should be thick in texture and the inside of the ear fairly well furnished with hair.
  • It is surmised that the strata were part of a beach, inclining, however, at a much lower angle, from which the tide receded in a westerly direction. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
  • She noticed how he dropped his head forward from his straight, strong shoulders, how beautiful that was, the strong, forward-inclining nape and back of the head. —  The Lost Girl
 

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