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Recline   /rɪklˈaɪn/   Listen
verb
Recline  v. t.  (past & past part. reclined; pres. part. reclining)  To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand. "The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast."


Recline  v. i.  
1.
To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
2.
To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.


adjective
Recline  adj.  Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. (R.) "They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers."





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... carriage, and made what arrangements they best could to allow her to recline. Blood was flowing from her foot; and it was so much swollen that it was impossible to guess at the amount of the injury. The foot was already twice the size of the other, in which Hugh for the first time recognised such a delicacy of form, as, ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... now, obedient to her words, Cupid went merrily in Achates' guiding, with the royal gifts for the Tyrians. Already at his coming the queen hath sate her down in the midmost on her golden [699-733]throne under the splendid tapestries; now lord Aeneas, now too the men of Troy gather, and all recline on the strewn purple. Servants pour water on their hands, serve corn from baskets, and bring napkins with close-cut pile. Fifty handmaids are within, whose task is in their course to keep unfailing store and kindle the household fire. An hundred others, and as many pages all of like age, ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil • Virgil
... the beautiful wanton assail him with inviting glances and seductive smiles; in vain did she, while in his presence, recline upon the sofa in attitudes of the most voluptuous abandonment; in vain did she, as if unconsciously, display to his gaze charms which might have moved an anchorite—a neck and shoulders of exquisite ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn
... culture essentially indolent. The southern blood she inherited, the life of the Italian fine lady she had led, made her languid and fond of inaction. To lie late in bed, to sip chocolate, and open her letters before she rose; to be dressed and re-dressed by a fashionable lady's maid; to recline in luxurious carriages, and to listen lazily to the flattery and adulation that had surrounded her—that had been Vera's life from morning till night ever since ...
— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
... Recipient (of income) rentulo. Reciprocal reciproka. Reciprocity reciprokeco. Recital rakonto. Recitation deklamo—ado. Recite deklami. Reckless senzorga. Reckon kalkuli. Reckoner (book) kalkullibro. Reckoning kalkulo. Reclaim (land) eltiri. Reclaim redemandi. Recline kusxi, apogi. Recluse ermito. Recognition rekono. Recognize rekoni. Recoil (of gun, etc.) repusxo. Recollect memori. Recommend rekomendi. Recommendation rekomendo. Recompense rekompenci. Reconcile ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes


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