An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.
Sloping.
In a sloping manner.
To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
To depart; to disappear suddenly.
To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
Paste of clay or loam.
A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.
To slope gently backward.