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Prebendaryship :: Prebendaryship (n.) The office of a prebendary.

Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary..

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..

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

Hydrotropic :: Hydrotropic (a.) Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots..

Bower :: Bower (v. & n.) One who bows or bends.

Trend :: Trend (v. t.) To cause to turn; to bend.

Prebend :: Prebend (n.) A prebendary.

Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..

Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges..

Refract :: Refract (n.) To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

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

Stoop :: Stoop (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders..

Curve :: Curve (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal..

Inflexibility :: Inflexibility (n.) The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy..

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..

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

Prebend :: Prebend (n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice..

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast..

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