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#NAME? :: -ite () A suffix denoting one of a party, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite..

Sorbent :: Sorbent (n.) An absorbent.

Curvant :: Curvant (p. pr.) Bowed; bent; curved.

Fill :: Fill (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair..

Agrostis :: Agrostis (n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses..

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

Sackful :: Sackful (a.) Bent on plunder.

Kirked :: Kirked (a.) Turned upward; bent.

Generatrix :: Generatrix (n.) That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent..

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..

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..

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

Resorbent :: Resorbent (a.) Swallowing up.

Pitot''s Tube :: Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter..

Hairpin :: Hairpin (n.) A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women..

Oxbow :: Oxbow (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river..

Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.

Reclining :: Reclining (a.) Recumbent.

Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

Knock-kneed :: Knock-kneed (a.) Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.

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