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Dental :: Dental (a.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves..

Subnotation :: Subnormal (n.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

Concave :: Concave (a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky..

Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.

Compone :: Compone (a.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony..

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..

Concave :: Concave (n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

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

Synclinal :: Synclastic (a.) Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic..

Recurved :: Recurved (a.) Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals..

Curvilinearity :: Curvilinearity (n.) The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.

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

Slicker :: Slicker (n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.

Belly :: Belly (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back..

Coelospermous :: Coelospermous (a.) Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed..

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Reduplicate :: Reduplicate (a.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.

Breasting :: Breasting (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel..

Reverted :: Reverted (a.) Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S..

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