the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ad. Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In or into an inclined or slanting position or direction; with leaning or inclination; deflected from the perpendicular; with declivity or descent, as a hill.
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adj. having an oblique or slanted direction
Word Usage
"Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind."