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Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.

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

Genuflect :: Genuflect (v. i.) To bend the knee, as in worship..

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..

Overbow :: Overbow (v. t.) To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction.

Menopome :: Menopome (n.) The hellbender.

Dumple :: Dumple (v. t.) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another..

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..

Bight :: Bight (v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow..

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.

Courb :: Courb (v. i.) To bend; to stop; to bow.

Circumflect :: Circumflect (v. t.) To bend around.

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

Reclinant :: Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.

Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

Deflection :: Deflection (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.

Seal :: Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap..

Cacoethes :: Cacoethes (n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, The itch for writing..

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

Prebendary :: Prebendary (n.) A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3..

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