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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Bot.)

(a)

Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.

(b)

Recumbent.

Reclining dial

a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center.

Davies & Peck

(Math. Dict.)

ppr.

Leaning back or sideways; resting; lying.

reclining ‎(not comparable)

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

reclining

reclining ‎(plural reclinings)

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.