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n. a yellow crystalline antibacterial antibiotic used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases. Aureomycin is one common trademark for chlortetracycline.
Syn. -- Aureomycin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Declined p. pr. & vb. n. Declining. ] [ OE. declinen to bend down, lower, sink, decline (a noun), F. décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect (a part of speech), avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. See Lean, v. i. ] 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. “With declining head.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disdaining to decline,
Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines. [ 1913 Webster ]

That empire must decline
Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

And presume to know . . .
Who thrives, and who declines. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 157. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. [ 1913 Webster ]

In melancholy deep, with head declined. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste
His weary wagon to the western vale. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to decrease or diminish. [ Obs. ] “You have declined his means.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them. [ 1913 Webster ]

Could I
Decline this dreadful hour? Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Gram.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Now restricted to such words as have case inflections; but formerly it was applied both to declension and conjugation. [ 1913 Webster ]

After the first declining of a noun and a verb. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. déclin. See Decline, v. i. ] 1. A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. Dunglison.

Syn. -- Decline, Decay, Consumption. Decline marks the first stage in a downward progress; decay indicates the second stage, and denotes a tendency to ultimate destruction; consumption marks a steady decay from an internal exhaustion of strength. The health may experience a decline from various causes at any period of life; it is naturally subject to decay with the advance of old age; consumption may take place at almost any period of life, from disease which wears out the constitution. In popular language decline is often used as synonymous with consumption. By a gradual decline, states and communities lose their strength and vigor; by progressive decay, they are stripped of their honor, stability, and greatness; by a consumption of their resources and vital energy, they are led rapidly on to a completion of their existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Declinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who declines or rejects. [ 1913 Webster ]

A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disinclined p. pr. & vb. n. Disinclining. ] To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inclined plane; an ascent or descent; a grade or gradient; a slope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Inclined p. pr. & vb. n. Inclining. ] [ OE. inclinen, enclinen, OF. encliner, incliner, F. incliner, L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. lean. See Lean to incline. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech. Judges ix. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Power finds its balance, giddy motions cease
In both the scales, and each inclines to peace. Parnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bow; to incline the head. Chaucer.

Syn. -- To lean; slope; slant; tend; bend. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear. Is. xxxvii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. Ps. cxix. 36. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incline our hearts to keep this law. Book of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility. [ 1913 Webster ]

With due respect my body I inclined. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. “Each pensively inclined.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inclined plane. (Mech.) (a) A plane that makes an oblique angle with the plane of the horizon; a sloping plane. When used to produce pressure, or as a means of moving bodies, it is one of the mechanical powers, so called. (b) (Railroad & Canal) An inclined portion of track, on which trains or boats are raised or lowered from one level to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Micro- + Gr. &unr_; to incline. ] (Min.) A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) A monoclinal fold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reclined 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reclinis. See Recline, v. t. ] Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They sat, recline
On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, reclines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: An armchair with a back that can be adjusted to lean backward, and a footrest that can be moved up to support the legs, or folded under the chair when the person is sitting up; the back and footrest are often geared so that they move together, allowing the chair to be conveniently adjusted either for sitting up or for lying back; also called a reclining chair. [ PJC ]