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Recurve :: Recurve (v. t.) To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

Embow :: Embow (v. t.) To bend like a bow; to curve.

Ordinate :: Ordinate (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured..

Ruler :: Ruler (n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a)..

Arquated :: Arquated (a.) Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved.

Directrix :: Directrix (n.) A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface..

Order :: Order (n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation..

Compassing :: Compassing (a.) Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers..

Fork :: Fork (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything..

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

Chaetognatha :: Chaetognatha (n. pl.) An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head..

Gauche :: Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

Rectifiable :: Rectifiable (a.) Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight l//e equal in length to any definite portion of the curve..

Spheroconic :: Spheroconic (n.) A nonplane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere whose center is at the vertex of the cone.

Turtle :: Turtle (n.) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.

Curvet :: Curvet (n.) To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Incurvity :: Incurvity (n.) A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards.

Hornbug :: Hornbug (n.) A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees..

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve..

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