reclining, ppl. a.
(rɪˈklaɪnɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That reclines, in senses of the vb.
reclining dial, reclining plane (see quots. 1668–9, 1797).
| 1668 Moxon Mech. Dial. 7 Direct Reclining Planes, which lean from you. 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xiii. 21 Reclining..Planes have their Bases or Horizontal Diameters lying in the Horizontal Diameter of some Azimuth. 1726 Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. II. 81/1 This Window..must either be higher than it is broad, or else on the contrary broader than it is high, which last sort is called a reclining window. 1748 Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xxxvi, Reclining lovers, in the lonely dale, Pour'd forth at large the sweetly-tortur'd heart. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) V. 787/1 Those dials..are called inclining or reclining dials, according as their planes make acute or obtuse angles with the horizon. 1807 J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 118 Reclinatus, reclining, curved towards the ground, as in Ficus, the Fig. 1883 L. M. Mitchell Hist. Anc. Sculpture xix. 354 By a recent correction in the placing of the reclining figure..lines of unexpected beauty in the composition of Pheidias have been revealed to us. 1966 D. Hall Henry Moore iv. 72 He exploited his stone-carving breakthrough in a series of female figures: upright busts, reclining figures. |
So reˈclining vbl. n., attrib. in reclining-board = back-board 4 (Ogilvie 1882); reclining-chair, a chair whose back can be adjusted to any required angle (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); reclining seat, a seat which may be adjusted to a reclining position, esp. in a motor vehicle or aeroplane.
These combinations can equally be seen as examples of the ppl. a.
| 1863 Geo. Eliot Let. 26 Dec. (1956) IV. 124 Another munificent friend has given me the most splendid *reclining chair conceivable. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 276/2 Improved portable suspensory Reclining Chair, with leg rest in canvas. 1976 B. Bova Multiple Man (1977) xiv. 148 We sat side by side in the most luxurious reclining chairs I'd ever flown in. |
| 1943 S. C. Menefee Assignment: U.S.A. i. v. 117 She settled her ample proportions into the *reclining seat next to me. 1974 ‘D. Craig’ Dead Liberty xix. 108 Boxanford arranged..to change his car... He wanted reclining seats. |