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Bend
BEND, [L.pando,pandare, to bend in; pando, pandere, to open; pandus, bent, crooked]
1. To strain, or to crook by straining; as, to bend a bow.
2. To crook; to make crooked; to curve; to inflect; as, to bend the arm.
3. To direct to a certain point; as, to bend our steps or course to a particular place.
4. To exert; to apply closely; to exercise laboriously; to intend or stretch; as, to bend the mind to study.
5. To prepare or put in order for use; to stretch or strain.
He hath bent his bow and made it ready. Psa 7.
6. To incline; to be determined; that is, to stretch towards, or cause to tend; as, to be bent on mischief.
7. To subdue; to cause to yield; to make submissive; as, to bend a man to our will.
8. In seamanship, to fasten, as one rope to another or to an anchor; to fasten, as a sail to its yard or stay; to fasten, as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
9. To bend the brow, is to knit the brow; to scowl; to frown.
BEND, v.i. To be crooked; to crook,or be curving.
1. To incline; to lean or turn; as, a road bends to the west.
2. To jut over; as a bending cliff.
3. To resolve, or determine.[See Bent on.]
4. To bow or be submissive. Isa 60.
BEND,n. A curve; a crook; a turn in a road or river; flexure; incurvation.
1. In marine language, that part of a rope which is fastened to another or to an anchor. [See To bend. No.8.]
2. Bends of a ship, are the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They are reckoned from the water, first, second or third bend. They have the beams,knees, and foot hooks bolted to them, and are the chief strength of the ship's sides.
3. In heraldry, one of the nine honorable ordinaries, containing a third part of the field, when charged, and a fifth, when plain. It is made by two lines drawn across from the dexter chief, to the sinister base point. It sometimes is indented, ingrained, etc.
BEND, n. A band. [Not in use.]
bend appears in definitions for these words:
Abducent Adansonia Aduncity Agile Anacamptic Antagonist Arc Arcuation Babyroussa Baker-legged Band Bandying Beluga Bend Bended Bendlet Bennet Beveling Bight Boughhty Bought Boulet Bow Bow-bent Bowing Bowingly Bowrs Bracket Buckle Buy Camber Cambering Chambrel Clinch Compliable Compliant Conflexure Coop Couch Courb Cower Cradle Cranberry Crank Crankle Crincum Cringe Crinkle Crook Crookedness Crooking Crouch Crouching Curb Curl Curling Curvature Curve Curving Curvity Declinate Declination Decline Decumbent Deflect Deflected Deflexure Devex Devexity Dexter Downwards Draught Draw Elastic Elbow Expand Falcade Falcation Fall Fearfully Flaccidness Flection Flexible Flexion Flexor Flexuous Flexure Flimsy Gaffle Garter Genuflection Gibbous Gleamy Gunwale Hame Hang Heck Hinge Hippocamp Hog Hook Incline Incurvate Incurvating Incurvation Incurve Incurvity Inexorable Inflect Inflecting Inflection Inflective Inflexibleness Intension Intention Intorsion Inwards Jarble Kneel Lap Last Lean Liege Lop Nod Overbend Pentice Piece Pleach Pliability Plight Ply Pole-ax Pound Prawn Prone Proneness Rack Raddock Reclinate Recurvate Recurvation Recurviroster Recurvity Reflect Reflectent Reflection Reflex Repand Retort Riban Rompee Ruck Sag Sceptered Serpentize Servile Shave Sheer Short Side Sinuate Sinuation Sinuosity Sinuous Snap Soul Span Spring Stiffness Stirrup Stoop Stooper Stooping Stoopingly Stringhalt Supple Swarm Sweepy Swerve This Throat Thunder Too Truckle Turn Turning Twine Unstooping Unwarping Verge Verger Verging Warp Winding Windy Wit Worship Wring Wring-bolt
Abducent Adansonia Aduncity Agile Anacamptic Antagonist Arc Arcuation Babyroussa Baker-legged Band Bandying Beluga Bend Bended Bendlet Bennet Beveling Bight Boughhty Bought Boulet Bow Bow-bent Bowing Bowingly Bowrs Bracket Buckle Buy Camber Cambering Chambrel Clinch Compliable Compliant Conflexure Coop Couch Courb Cower Cradle Cranberry Crank Crankle Crincum Cringe Crinkle Crook Crookedness Crooking Crouch Crouching Curb Curl Curling Curvature Curve Curving Curvity Declinate Declination Decline Decumbent Deflect Deflected Deflexure Devex Devexity Dexter Downwards Draught Draw Elastic Elbow Expand Falcade Falcation Fall Fearfully Flaccidness Flection Flexible Flexion Flexor Flexuous Flexure Flimsy Gaffle Garter Genuflection Gibbous Gleamy Gunwale Hame Hang Heck Hinge Hippocamp Hog Hook Incline Incurvate Incurvating Incurvation Incurve Incurvity Inexorable Inflect Inflecting Inflection Inflective Inflexibleness Intension Intention Intorsion Inwards Jarble Kneel Lap Last Lean Liege Lop Nod Overbend Pentice Piece Pleach Pliability Plight Ply Pole-ax Pound Prawn Prone Proneness Rack Raddock Reclinate Recurvate Recurvation Recurviroster Recurvity Reflect Reflectent Reflection Reflex Repand Retort Riban Rompee Ruck Sag Sceptered Serpentize Servile Shave Sheer Short Side Sinuate Sinuation Sinuosity Sinuous Snap Soul Span Spring Stiffness Stirrup Stoop Stooper Stooping Stoopingly Stringhalt Supple Swarm Sweepy Swerve This Throat Thunder Too Truckle Turn Turning Twine Unstooping Unwarping Verge Verger Verging Warp Winding Windy Wit Worship Wring Wring-bolt
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