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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aslant \A*slant"\, adv & a. [Pref. a- + slant.] Toward one side in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aslant \A*slant"\, prep. In a slanting direction over athwart. There is a willow grows aslant a brook. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: aslant adj : having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: {aslope}, {diagonal}, {slanted}, {slanting}, {sloped}, {sloping}] adv 1: over or across in a slanting direction 2: at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face" [syn: {obliquely}, {athwart}]
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