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Versant sb. World English Historical Dictionary

Versant sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Versant sb. [a. F. versant (15th c. in Littré), f. verser: see VERSE v.2]

1   1.  The slope, side or descent of a mountain or mountain-chain; the area or region covered by this. (Usu. with specifying epithet.)

2 1851.  Catal. Gt. Exhib., IV. 1341/2. The species of oak which produces the cork vegetates … over the versants or faces of the Pyrenees.

3 1883.  Encycl. Amer., I. 477/2. The best part of the United States for bee-farming is considered to be the Pacific versant.

4 1901.  Q. Rev., July, 18. The conifer forests … which clothe the eastern versant of the Victoria Nyanza.

5   2.  Tendency to slope or descend; declination.

6 1859.  R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 30. Thus the oriental half of the African continent has a compound versant, eastward with southing, and westward with southing.

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