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Ply :: Ply (v.) Bent; turn; direction; bias.

Supple :: Supple (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers..

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

Pluroderes :: Pluroderes (n. pl.) A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example..

Bridle Iron :: Bridle iron () A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger..

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

Flexile :: Flexile (a.) Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.

Describent :: Describent (n.) Same as Generatrix.

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..

Semiflexed :: Semiflexed (a.) Half bent.

Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..

Accumbent :: Accumbent (n.) One who reclines at table.

Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.

Prop :: Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building..

Benthamite :: Benthamite (n.) One who believes in Benthamism.

Notorhizal :: Notorhizal (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

Incurvation :: Incurvation (n.) The state of being bent or curved; curvature.

Crane :: Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask..

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