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Curb :: Curb (v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe.

Turn :: Turn (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander..

Stoop :: Stoop (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body..

Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall..

Clinch :: Clinch (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail..

Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.

Genu :: Genu (n.) The kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain..

Inwards :: Inwards (a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward..

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall..

Sag :: Sag (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.

Malanders :: Malanders (n. pl.) A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend..

Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..

Trap :: Trap (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids..

Baton :: Baton (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister..

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..

Hydrotropic :: Hydrotropic (a.) Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots..

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects..

Bow :: Bow (v. i.) To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down..

Apheliotropism :: Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

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