a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + kli`nein to incline. ] (Physics.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said of the imaginary line near the earth's equator on which the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of herbs and shrubs of Australia and Southern Africa, with an everlasting flower; most species are usually placed in genus Helipterum.
Syn. -- genus Acroclinium [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Clinical. ] 1. One confined to the bed by sickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [ Obs. ] Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients. [ PJC ]

4. (Med.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested. [ PJC ]

6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [ fig. ] [ PJC ]

{ , a. [ Gr. kliniko`s, fr. kli`nh bed, fr. kli`nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. --
Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. --
Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. --
Clinical medicine,
Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clinical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. of or pertaining to the Clinidae, a family of fish of temperate and tropical seas. [ PJC ]

n. any fish of the family Clinidae, of temperate and tropical seas. [ PJC ]

n. a natural family of viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas.
Syn. -- family Clinidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Med.) A clinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kli`nh bed. ] (Bot.) See Clinanthium. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. decreasing; as, steadily declining incomes.
Syn. -- down(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. going from better to worse.
Syn. -- deteriorating, failing, regressing, retrograde, retrogressive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. becoming less or smaller; as, declining powers of body and mind. Opposite of increasing.
Syn. -- eroding. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. drawing to an end; waning; as, his declining years. [ prenominal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; to incline. ] (Crystallog.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Inclination; disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Party or side chosen; a following. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both you of my inclining, and the rest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Same as Inclined, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; to incline. ] Of or pertaining to, or indicating, equality of inclination or dip; having equal inclination or dip. [ 1913 Webster ]

Isoclinal lines (Magnetism), lines on the earth's surface connecting places at which a dipping needle indicates the same inclination or dip. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mono- + Gr. &unr_; to incline. ] (Crystallog.) Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Periclinia [ NL., fr. Gr. peri` around + &unr_; a bed. ] (Bot.) The involucre which surrounds the common receptacle in composite flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Poly- + clinic. ] (Med.) A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated; especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. (b) Recumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Synclinal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. tricliniaris. See Triclinium. ] Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. tri- + Gr. &unr_; to incline. ] (Crystallog.) Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Triclinia [ L., from Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; &unr_; (see Tri-) + &unr_; a couch. ] (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts. (b) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]