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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

reclining
    n 1: the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Recline \Re*cline"\ (r[-e]*kl[imac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Reclined (r[-e]*kl[imac]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reclining.]
   [L. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. See
   Incline, Lean to incline.]
   To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in
   a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
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         The mother
         Reclined her dying head upon his breast. --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Reclining \Re*clin"ing\, a. (Bot.)
      (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the
          perpendicular.
      (b) Recumbent.
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   Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the
      vertical line through its center. --Davies & Peck (Math.
      Dict.).
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Thesaurus Results for Reclining:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, debasement, decumbency, decumbent, depression, draped, flat, groveling, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying, lying down, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration, reclination, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine, shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness, squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness

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