To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or
disposed; to incline; to tend.
1. The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton. 2. pl. (Paint.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints. The flesh tints in painting are termed carnations. Fairholt. 3. (Bot.) A species...
