(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:55:22

A*slope" (#), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slope.]

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

"Set them not upright, but aslope."

Bacon.

 

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