Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position;
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.
[1913 Webster]
The mother
Reclined her dying head upon his breast. --Dryden.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
reclining
n 1: the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "reclining":
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