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Pendice

A sloping roof a lean to a penthouse

Penthouse

A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building as over a door or window a lean to Also figuratively

Razor backed

Having a sharp lean or thin back as a razor backed hog perch etc

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Repeal

Implied Repeal.--The effect of an implied repeal is the same as that of an express repeal; but the leaning of the courts is against implied repeal. See West Ham v. Fourth City Mutual Building Society, (1892) 1

Reclination

The act of leaning or reclining or the state of being reclined

Recline

To cause or permit to lean incline rest etc to place in a recumbent position as to recline the head on the hand

Recumbence

The act of leaning resting or reclining the state of being recumbent

Sag

or cable supported by its ends sags though tightly drawn the floor of a room sags hence to lean give way or settle from a vertical position as a building may sag one way or another a

Bhatha land

part of the bed of a river on which vegetables, melon, cucumber, etc., can be grown during the lean period after the rainy season is over when the level of the water in the river is quite

Circumstantial evidence

fact from credible eye-witnesses is the most satisfactory that can be produced; and the universal feeling of mankind leans to this species of evidence in preference to that which is merely circumstantial. If positive evidence of a

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