Reclining

a.

1.

(Bot.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. Reclining dial (Math. Dict.) a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.). - Davies & Peck

Noun	1.	reclining - the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
Adj.	1.	reclining - lying down; in a position of comfort or rest Synonyms: accumbent, decumbent, recumbent

accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, debasement, decumbency, decumbent, depression, draped, flat, groveling, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying, lying down, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration, reclination, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine, shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness, squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness

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