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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
aslant
    adv 1: over or across in a slanting direction
    2: at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
       [syn: obliquely, aslant, athwart]
    adj 1: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant,
           aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped,
           sloping]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aslant \A*slant"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slant.]
   Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.
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         [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aslant \A*slant"\, prep.
   In a slanting direction over; athwart.
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         There is a willow grows aslant a brook.  --Shak.
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