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Crimper :: Crimper (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.

Curveting :: Curveting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curve.

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood..

Curvinerved :: Curvinerved (a.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.

Inwardly :: Inwardly (adv.) Toward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly..

Shoeing-horn :: Shoeing-horn (n.) A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe..

Engrail :: Engrail (v. t.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.

Epitrochoid :: Epitrochoid (n.) A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid..

Arch :: Arch (n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed..

Parabolical :: Parabolical (a.) Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola; as, a parabolic curve..

Lenticularly :: Lenticularly (adv.) In the manner of a lens; with a curve.

Claw :: Claw (n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails..

Intrados :: Intrados (n.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados..

Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas..

Curviform :: Curviform (a.) Having a curved form.

Enarched :: Enarched (a.) Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.

Lituus :: Lituus (n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

Rectification :: Rectification (n.) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.

Bandy :: Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg..

Bow :: Bow (v. i.) To bend; to curve.

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