Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SLANT, or SLANT-ING, a. [Sw. slinta, slant, to slip; perhaps allied to W. ysglent, a slide; and if Ln are the radical letters, this coincides with lean, incline.]

Sloping; oblique; inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; as, a slanting ray of light; a slanting floor.