reclining

Etymology

adj

1. Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.
   a reclining armchair
2. (botany) Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of recline

noun

1. (dated) The act of one who reclines.
   Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion. 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart., page 233