Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reclining \Re*clin"ing\, a. (Bot.)
   (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
   (b) Recumbent.

   {Reclining dial}, a dial whose plane is inclined to the
      vertical line through its center. --Davies & Peck (Math.
      Dict.).