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RECLINING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("reclining" is a kind of...):
motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)
Derivation:
recline (lean in a comfortable resting position)
recline (move the upper body backwards and down)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb recline
Context examples:
Some of them threw themselves in half-reclining positions on the sofas and ottomans: some bent over the tables and examined the flowers and books: the rest gathered in a group round the fire: all talked in a low but clear tone which seemed habitual to them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With a shrill cry of anger a man rose from a reclining chair beside the fire.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I came in view again the cloud had passed, and the moonlight struck so brilliantly that I could see Lucy half reclining with her head lying over the back of the seat.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A very few minutes, however, gave her complete control of herself; then, motioning her husband to sit beside her on the sofa where she was half reclining, she made the rest of us bring chairs up close.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
