Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee..

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor..

Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.

Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.

Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission..

Bend :: Bend (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road..

Bend :: Bend (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

Bend :: Bend (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post..

Bend :: Bend (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

Bend :: Bend (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind..

Bend :: Bend (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

Bend :: Bend (n.) A band.

Bend :: Bend (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base..

Bendable :: Bendable (a.) Capable of being bent.

Bended :: Bended (imp. & p. p.) of Ben.

Bender :: Bender (n.) One who, or that which, bends..

Bender :: Bender (n.) An instrument used for bending.

Bender :: Bender (n.) A drunken spree.

Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.

Bending :: Bending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ben.

Bending :: Bending (n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

Bendlet :: Bendlet (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend..

Bendwise :: Bendwise (adv.) Diagonally.

Bendy :: Bendy (a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

Circumbendibus :: Circumbendibus (n.) A roundabout or indirect way.

Disbend :: Disbend (v. t.) To unbend.

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