Definition of bend

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

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Throat :: Throat (v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending..
Cacoethes :: Cacoethes (n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, The itch for writing..
Peen :: Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation..
Sny :: Sny (n.) An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.
Flection :: Flection (n.) The act of bending, or state of being bent..
Plash :: Plash (v. t.) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge..
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check..
Truckle :: Truckle (v. i.) To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.
Incurvation :: Incurvation (n.) The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence..
Timber :: Timber (n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united..
Relax :: Relax (v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study..
Contort :: Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest..
Unbow :: Unbow (v. t.) To unbend.
Circumflexion :: Circumflexion (n.) The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form..
Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..
Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls..
Deflexure :: Deflexure (n.) A bending or turning aside; deflection.
Nyctitropic :: Nyctitropic (a.) Turning or bending at night into special positions.
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals..
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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