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Slope (v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
Slope (v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
Slope (a.) Sloping.
Slope (adv.) In a sloping manner.
Slope (v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
Slope (v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
Slope (v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.