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Curvation :: Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.

Plashing :: Plashing (n.) The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges..

Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees..

Flexor :: Flexor (n.) A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor..

Serpentize :: Serpentize (v. i.) To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine..

Cringe :: Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.

Arch :: Arch (v. t.) To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

Bight :: Bight (v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin..

Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..

Flag :: Flag (v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp..

Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar..

Unbend :: Unbend (v. t.) To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use..

Hook :: Hook (v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.

Unbending :: Unbending (a.) Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons.

Reclining :: Reclining (a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.

Prebendship :: Prebendship (n.) A prebendaryship.

Swerve :: Swerve (v. i.) To bend; to incline.

Clinch :: Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts..

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..

Circumflexion :: Circumflexion (n.) The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form..

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