Definition of bend

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

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Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.
Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..
Juke :: Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
Winding :: Winding (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream..
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Incurvation :: Incurvation (n.) The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence..
Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like..
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..
Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird..
Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
Flection :: Flection (n.) The act of bending, or state of being bent..
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue..
Flex :: Flex (v. t.) To bend; as, to flex the arm..
Reclinant :: Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.
Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs..
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Disbend :: Disbend (v. t.) To unbend.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
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..
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