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Double :: Double (a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth..

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..

Crankle :: Crankle (v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle..

Pliant :: Pliant (v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart..

Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges..

Engouled :: Engouled (a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled..

Sag :: Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced..

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

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion..

Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.

Couch :: Couch (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch..

Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..

Unbending :: Unbending (a.) Devoted to relaxation or amusement.

Sinuosity :: Sinuosity (n.) A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve..

Rack :: Rack (a.) An instrument for bending a bow.

Sag :: Sag (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.

Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.

Incurvity :: Incurvity (n.) A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.

Stoop :: Stoop (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders..

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