Definition of bend

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Bend (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

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Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..
Homomallous :: Homomallous (a.) Uniformly bending or curving to one side; -- said of leaves which grow on several sides of a stem.
Overbend :: Overbend (v. i.) To bend over.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Corps :: Corps (n. sing. & pl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.
Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..
Menopome :: Menopome (n.) The hellbender.
Malanders :: Malanders (n. pl.) A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column..
Bend :: Bend (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post..
Prebendary :: Prebendary (n.) A prebendaryship.
Bend :: Bend (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind..
Genuflection :: Genuflection (n.) The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship..
Serpentize :: Serpentize (v. i.) To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine..
Hydrotropic :: Hydrotropic (a.) Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots..
Bend :: Bend (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road..
Circumnutation :: Circumnutation (n.) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants..
Retort :: Retort (n.) To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line..
Sinuate :: Sinuate (v. i.) To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.
Suppled :: Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
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