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Bent :: Bent (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

Deflected :: Deflected (a.) Bent downward; deflexed.

Reflected :: Reflected (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.

Rabble :: Rabble (n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling..

Residence :: Residence (n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

Inflexible :: Inflexible (a.) Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

Accumbent :: Accumbent (a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf..

Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse..

Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..

Bent :: Bent () imp. & p. p. of Bend.

Jointer :: Jointer (n.) A bent piece of iron inserted to strengthen the joints of a wall.

Dispatchful :: Dispatchful (a.) Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks..

Benthal :: Benthal (a.) Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees..

Crank :: Crank (n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank..

Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

Kneejoint :: Kneejoint (n.) A toggle joint; -- so called because consisting of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent..

Voidance :: Voidance (n.) The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent..

Lambent :: Lambent (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.

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