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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To recline; lean; repose.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete, intransitive To lean; to recline; to repose.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To lean; to recline; to repose.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. lean in a comfortable resting position

Etymologies

  1. Latin recumbere; prefix re- back + cumbere (in comparative), akin to cubare to lie down. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of”

    Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854

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  1. lean
  1. recline
  1. repose

hypernyms (1)

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  1. lie

hyponyms (1)

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  1. rest

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