Definition of bent

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

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Thysanura :: Thysanura (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura..
Lugsail :: Lugsail (n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
Crane :: Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask..
Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious..
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..
Knock-kneed :: Knock-kneed (a.) Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem..
Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold..
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..
Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos
Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..
Deflexed :: Deflexed (a.) Bent abruptly downward.
Anteflexion :: Anteflexion (n.) A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself..
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..
Doddart :: Doddart (n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game..
Labent :: Labent (a.) Slipping; sliding; gliding.
Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking..
Incurvity :: Incurvity (n.) A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.
Bent :: Bent (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass..
Lithy :: Lithy (a.) Easily bent; pliable.
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