Crossword clues for recline
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recline \Re*cline"\, v. i.
To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.
Recline \Re*cline"\, a. [L. reclinis. See Recline, v. t.] Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.]
They sat, recline
On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers.
--Milton.
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.
The mother
Reclined her dying head upon his breast.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French recliner "rest, lay; bend, lean over" (13c.) and directly from Latin reclinare "to bend back, to lean back; cause to lean," from re- "back, against" (see re-) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Related: Reclined; reclining.\n\nRecline is always as strong as lean, and generally stronger, indicating a more completely recumbent position, and approaching lie. [Century Dictionary]
Wiktionary
n. (rfdef: English) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to lean back; to bend back. 2 (context transitive English) To put in a resting position. 3 (context intransitive English) To lean back. 4 (context intransitive English) To put oneself in a resting position.
WordNet
Usage examples of "recline".
The acroterion is cast in the reclining form of a pretty young man, hands bound above his head, ankles bound as well, and a gag tied tightly across his mouth.
Donning a beruffled dressing gown of blue cambric, she reclined on the chaise longue in her sitting-room.
They at length opened the hamper, and seated themselves near the spot where Mallard had been reclining.
Under that paragoric mask, he was content as he sighted down his reclining captain, whoin he did not have to bury on a world of monsters.
Bishop was reclining on the long chair on his verandah, while overhead the heavy punkah fans swayed to and fro, stirring the moist, warm air.
Sah-luma, reclining in a quaintly carved ebony chair, was toying with the fruit and wine set out before him on an ivory and gold stand,--his dress, simpler than it had been on the previous evening, was of fine white linen gathered loosely about his classic figure,--he wore neither myrtle-wreath nor jewels,--the expression of his face was serious, even noble, and his attitude was one of languid grace and unstudied ease that became him infinitely well.
Dushau gravity in a comfortably appointed interior, fifteen red multispecies reclining chairs, adjustable light and gravity at each, ample personal cargo stowage, and a drop-platform to a cargo bay below the cabin.
Truman had thrown himself into a reclining chair in his little parlor, while Mrs.
She had been reclining in a hammock, and at sound of his voice struggled suddenly to a sitting posture, a low cry on her lips.
Blakely wakened, hours later, the sight that met him, dimly comprehending, was that of a blue-coated soldier snoozing in a reclining chair, a blue-blanketed Indian girl seated on the floor near the foot of his bed, looking with all her soul in her gaze straight into his wondering eyes.
The tiers were padded for reclining, too large to be easy steps for a human.
The most striking of the trio was a young Hutt, reclining with a bored expression and an impatient twitch in his thickly muscled tail.
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He spotted Antigonus, reclining and enjoying the ministrations of a lovely Numidian slave girl.
Julia was in the triclinium with Primus, reclining comfortably on one of the couches and laughing at one of his salacious jokes.