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Bend :: Bend (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

Prebendship :: Prebendship (n.) A prebendaryship.

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee..

Canonry :: Canonry (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

Flection :: Flection (n.) The act of bending, or state of being bent..

Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..

Plash :: Plash (v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge..

Train :: Train (v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees..

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension..

Stubby :: Stubborn (a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule..

Bulgy :: Bulgy (a.) Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward..

Bended :: Bended (imp. & p. p.) of Ben.

Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To bend; to incline.

Elbow :: Elbow (v. i.) To jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..

Flexion :: Flexion (n.) A bending; a part bent; a fold.

Sinuous :: Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.

Knee :: Knee (n.) A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy..

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction..

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