Definition of bend

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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..

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Enarched :: Enarched (a.) Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.
Genuflect :: Genuflect (v. i.) To bend the knee, as in worship..
Lap :: Lap (n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth..
Arch :: Arch (v. t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission..
Ply :: Ply (v. i.) To bend; to yield.
Unbending :: Unbending (a.) Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things.
Trend :: Trend (v. t.) To cause to turn; to bend.
Incurvity :: Incurvity (n.) A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.
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..
Genuflection :: Genuflection (n.) The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship..
Premise :: Premise (n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body..
Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..
Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Crankle :: Crankle (v. i.) To bend, turn, or wind..
Curvature :: Curvature (n.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point..
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..
Sny :: Sny (n.) An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.
Apheliotropism :: Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
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