Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To recline; lean; repose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To lean; to recline; to repose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, intransitive To
lean ; torecline ; torepose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lean in a comfortable resting position
Etymologies
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Latin recumbere; prefix re- back + cumbere (in comparative), akin to cubare to lie down.
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Examples
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Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854 2008
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