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Aslope

Aslope \A*slope"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slope.] Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. ``Set them not upright, but aslope.''
--Bacon.

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aslope

a. slanted or sloping adv. slanted or sloping

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aslope

adj. having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping]

Usage examples of "aslope".

I was standing within my garden, which lies aslope down to the Holborn river, yet it was all quite changed.

Very early pearly grey linoleum curling up around its edges covered the aslope floor.

Oresbius cinched with shining belt who had lived in Hyle hoarding his great wealth, his estate aslope the shores of Lake Cephisus, and round him Boeotians held the fertile plain.

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.