Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slanting"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Slanting \Slant"ing\, a.
Oblique; sloping. -- {Slant"ing*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Slant \Slant\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slanted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Slanting}.] [OE. slenten to slope, slide; cf. Sw. slinta to
slide.]
To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie
obliquely; to slope.

On the side of younder slanting hill. --Dodsley.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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