[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

recline \recline"\ r-eklimacn", v. t. imp.  p. p.
   reclined r-eklimacnd"; p. pr.  vb. n. reclining.
   l. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. see
   incline, lean to incline.
   to cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in
   a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
   1913 webster

         the mother
         reclined her dying head upon his breast. --dryden.
   1913 webster
see also:
reclined reclining incline lean 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

reclining \reclin"ing\, 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
see also:
reclining dial 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

reclining
     adj : lying down; in a position of comfort or rest syn: accumbent,
            decumbent, recumbent
     n : the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
see also:
accumbent decumbent recumbent 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

42 moby thesaurus words for "reclining":
   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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