Accumbent: Definition and part of speech

Accumbent

  1. n. One who reclines at table.
  2. a. Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
  3. a. Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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