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Trend :: Trend (v. t.) To cause to turn; to bend.

Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like..

Set :: Set (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring..

Twine :: Twine (v. i.) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.

Compliant :: Compliant (a.) Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.

Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility..

Pliant :: Pliant (v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart..

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course..

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..

Cacoethes :: Cacoethes (n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, The itch for writing..

Verge :: Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north..

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue..

Sput :: Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.

Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To bend or curv.

Intorsion :: Intorsion (n.) The bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical..

Knee :: Knee (n.) A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy..

Proneness :: Proneness (n.) The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man..

Skelp :: Skelp (n.) A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed..

Wiggle :: Wiggle (v. t.) To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water..

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

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