aslope

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Slanted, sloping.

   “VVhere Porters Hogſheads roll from Carts aſlope, / Or Brevvers dovvn ſteep Cellars ſtretch the Rope, / VVhere counted Billets are by Carmen toſt; / Stay thy raſh Steps, and vvalk vvithout the Poſt.”

2. zarf Sloping, in a sloping manner; slanted along a slope.

   “Feare cauſeth Paleneſſe; Trembling; The Standing of the Haire vpright; Starting; and Skritching. […] Standing Vpright of the Haire is cauſed, for that by the Shutting of the Pores of the Skin, the Haire that lyeth aſloape, muſt needs Riſe.”

3. zarf Indirectly, obliquely.

   “[N]euertheleſſe he would that point ſhould be leſſe and more finely and cloſely handled, not euen fully playne and directly, but touched a ſlope craftily, as though men ſpared in that point to ſpeake al the truth for feare of his diſpleaſure.”

4. zarf In an unfavourable or unintended direction.

   “[H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.”

5. edat Diagonally across or over; aslant.

   “[T]he King, […] puts the Belt ouer the necke of the Knight, aſlope his breaſt, placing the Svvord vnder his left Arme: […]”