decumbency
decumbency is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act or posture of lying down. The ancient manner of decumbency. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accubation
- accumbent
- all
- alluvial
- area
- azimuth
- back
- beam
- billiard
- bowling
- butte
- calm
- couch
- couchant
- cricket
- croquet
- dead
- decumbence
- decumbent
- discumbency
- down
- esplanade
- estrade
- even
- fell
- flat
- flatness
- flatten
- floor
- glass
- green
- ground
- horizontal
- horizontality
- horizontally
- instrument
- its
- jacent
- knock
- land
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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