reclining

English

Adjective

reclining (not comparable)

1. Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.

   a reclining armchair

2. (botany) Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent.

Derived terms

• reclining board

 

Verb

reclining

1. present participle and gerund of recline

Noun

reclining (plural reclinings)

1. (dated) The act of one who reclines.
   • 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart., page 233:

     Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.