Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reclination \Rec`li*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]clinaison.]
   1. The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being
      reclined.

   2. (Dialing) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with
      a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
      --Brande & C.

   3. (Surg.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by
      applying the needle to its anterior surface, and
      depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that
      front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and
      its back surface the lower one. --Dunglison.