Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reclining

Reclining , adjective

(a)
(Botany) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
(b)
(Botany) Recumbent.
Collocations (1)
Reclining dial (Mathematics Dict.) , a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Mathematics Dict.).