Reclining

reclining
    n 1: the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
    

Recline \Re*cline"\ (r[-e]*kl[imac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Reclined} (r[-e]*kl[imac]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reclining}.]
   [L. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. See
   {Incline}, {Lean} to incline.]
   To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in
   a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
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         The mother
         Reclined her dying head upon his breast. --Dryden.
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Reclining \Re*clin"ing\, a. (Bot.)
      (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the
          perpendicular.
      (b) Recumbent.
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   {Reclining dial}, a dial whose plane is inclined to the
      vertical line through its center. --Davies & Peck (Math.
      Dict.).
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "reclining":
      accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche,
      crawling, debasement, decumbency, decumbent, depression, draped,
      flat, groveling, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying,
      lying down, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration,
      reclination, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine,
      shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness,
      squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness