What is toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden called?
aslant — Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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