To bend downwards or to one side; to lean, incline, slope. Obsolete or dialect. (See also heel, v.2 1.)

To bend or incline in a particular direction (usually indicated by an adverb or adverbial phrase). Const. from, over, towards; also with adverbs back…

Of a thing: To incline from the perpendicular; to bend down; to slope; to hang over.

intransitive. To bow, incline.

intransitive. To lean, slant, or bend away from a normal or typical position or direction, esp. the vertical or horizontal; to slope; to tilt…

intransitive. To incline; to slope, slant. Also in extended use: (to tend) to incline or lean. Chiefly with to. Also transitive in past participle.

intransitive. To bend, slope, incline.

intransitive. To incline; to lean (physically or mentally).

intransitive. To bend or move to one side, or downwards, as by excess of weight or pressure; to incline, lean, swerve.

intransitive. To overhang, lean, incline. Obsolete. rare. (In later use English regional (East Anglian).)

Also transferred and figurative (of an object or animal, or jocular of a person).