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Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending..

Geanticlinal :: Geanticlinal (n.) An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..

Unbending :: Unbending (a.) Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things.

Deflexure :: Deflexure (n.) A bending or turning aside; deflection.

Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird..

Curve :: Curve (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal..

Unbend :: Unbend (v. t.) To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow..

Inflexure :: Inflexure (n.) An inflection; a bend or fold.

Flexural :: Flexural (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity..

Curl :: Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity..

Twist :: Twist (n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.

Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.

Flexure :: Flexure (n.) A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.

Winding :: Winding (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream..

Chelidon :: Chelidon (n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

Bent :: Bent (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow..

Ivory :: Ivory (n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility..

Bought :: Bought (n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent..

Flexuous :: Flexuous (a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures..

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