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- English Word Declination Definition The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
- English Word Declination Definition The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
- English Word Declinator Definition An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
- English Word Declinator Definition A dissentient.
- English Word Declinatory Definition Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
- English Word Declinature Definition The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
- English Word Decline Definition To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
- English Word Decline Definition To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
- English Word Decline Definition To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
- English Word Decline Definition To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
- English Word Decline Definition To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- English Word Decline Definition To cause to decrease or diminish.
- English Word Decline Definition To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
- English Word Decline Definition To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
- English Word Decline Definition To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
- English Word Decline Definition A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
- English Word Decline Definition That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
- English Word Decline Definition A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
- English Word Declined Definition of Decline
- English Word Declined Definition Declinate.
- English Word Decliner Definition He who declines or rejects.
- English Word Declining Definition of Decline
- English Word Declinometer Definition An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
- English Word Declinous Definition Declinate.
- English Word Declivities Definition of Declivity
- English Word Declivitous Definition Alt. of Declivous
- English Word Declivity Definition Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
- English Word Declivity Definition A descending surface; a sloping place.
- English Word Declivous Definition Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.
- English Word Decoct Definition To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.