Definition of bend

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Bend (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

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Crankle :: Crankle (v. i.) To bend, turn, or wind..
Flexion :: Flexion (n.) A bending; a part bent; a fold.
Cringe :: Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
Juke :: Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
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..
Sinus :: Sinus (n.) An opening; a hollow; a bending.
Bended :: Bended (imp. & p. p.) of Ben.
Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..
Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Bending :: Bending (n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
Oxbow :: Oxbow (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river..
Geanticlinal :: Geanticlinal (n.) An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal..
Flex :: Flex (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm..
Couch :: Couch (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch..
Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Unbending :: Unbending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unben.
Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..
Bend :: Bend (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north..
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