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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..

Reclining :: Reclining (a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..

Bender :: Bender (n.) A drunken spree.

Apheliotropism :: Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Reflectent :: Reflectent (a.) Bending or flying back; reflected.

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

Disbend :: Disbend (v. t.) To unbend.

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..

Bend :: Bend (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

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..

Turning :: Turning (n.) The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander..

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

Lout :: Lout (v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.

Cottise :: Cottise (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close..

Antagonist :: Antagonist (n.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it..

Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..

Curvation :: Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.

Plica :: Plica (v.) The bend of the wing of a bird.

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