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Whip′-graft, to graft by fitting a tongue cut on the scion to a slit cut slopingly in the stock.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

We drift upon a tide Shoreless on every side, Save where the eye Of Fancy sweeps far lands Shelved slopingly with sands Of gold and porphyry.

From Riley Love-Lyrics by Vawter, Will

It was one of those long, low racing boats, steered with a wheel like a motor-car, and slopingly decked over in front to shield the driver.

From The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol by Theiss, Lewis E.

Very different these from the concomitants of half a sheet of ruled paper, scrawled over as if chickens had been walking upon it, and folded slopingly, and held loosely together by a wafer!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The trough thus charged is fixed slopingly upon the machine, over a little table, as big as the plate of an ordinary sovereign-balance.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter