Slope

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings the summit and slope of a hill. Macaulay. Under the slopes of Pisgah. Deut. iv. 49. (Rev. Ver.).

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

2. To depart; to disappear suddenly. [Slang]

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Sloping. "Down the slope hills." Milton. A bank not steep, but gently slope. Bacon.

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

In a sloping manner. [Obs.] Milton.