Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aslant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aslant \A*slant"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slant.]
Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.
[The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aslant \A*slant"\, prep.
In a slanting direction over; athwart.
There is a willow grows aslant a brook. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aslant
adj : having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: {aslope}, {diagonal},
{slanted}, {slanting}, {sloped}, {sloping}]
adv 1: over or across in a slanting direction
2: at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
[syn: {obliquely}, {athwart}]
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