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Recumbent :: Recumbent (a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle..

Retroflexed :: Retroflexed (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

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

Intellection :: Intellection (n.) A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself.

Staple :: Staple (n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like..

Crump :: Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.

Corbel :: Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture..

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is morally incumbent, or is imposed, as a rule, a duty, obligation, or responsibility..

Dispose :: Dispose (v. t.) To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object..

Knock-knee :: Knock-knee (n.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Tent :: Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges..

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

Portionist :: Portionist (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.

Humifuse :: Humifuse (a.) Spread over the surface of the ground; procumbent.

Accumbency :: Accumbency (n.) The state of being accumbent or reclining.

Succursal :: Succumbent (a.) Submissive; yielding.

Intent :: Intent (a.) Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement..

Bent :: Bent (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

Saddle-shaped :: Saddle-shaped (a.) Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form.

Vermetus :: Vermetus (n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube..

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