Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
1Each rested atilt, one wing on the ground, the other extending into the air.
2On one of the trees a robin sang and watched him with its head atilt.
3When I looked up he was atilt upon the branch of an apple tree near by.
4The arrows first, had been his hope, and then this silent vulture, atilt in the purple tides.
5Duskily-lashed eyes of dark violet were brimming with a contagious energy and her rounded chin was splendidly atilt.
6Near the house torches lined the driveway, some still lit, a few atilt and smoking, but most burned out.
7In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.
8Diana had worked with a very rapid lens and had caught them atilt, in the full abandonment of the child to joy in motion.