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Webster 1913 Edition


Aslope

A-slope′

,
adv.
&
Adj.
[Pref.
a-
+
slope
.]
Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.
“Set them not upright, but aslope.”
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Aslope

ASLO'PE

,
Adj.
or adv. [a and slope. See Slope.
With leaning or inclination; obliquely; with declivity or descent, as a hill; declining from an upright direction.
Set them not upright, but aslope.

Definition 2024


aslope

aslope

English

Adjective

aslope (comparative more aslope, superlative most aslope)

  1. slanted or sloping
    • 1911, Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Honor of Israel Gow
      Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.

Adverb

aslope (comparative more aslope, superlative most aslope)

  1. slanted or sloping

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