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Bar :: Bar (n.) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole..

Enarched :: Enarched (a.) Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast..

Recumbent :: Recumbent (a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle..

Jew''s-harp :: "Jew's-harp (n.) An instrument of music, which, when placed between the teeth, gives, by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger, a sound which is modulated by the breath; -- called also Jew's-trump..

Incurvation :: Incurvation (n.) The state of being bent or curved; curvature.

Agrostis :: Agrostis (n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses..

Torqued :: Torqued (a.) Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S..

Reclining :: Reclining (a.) Recumbent.

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron..

Benty :: Benty (a.) Resembling bent.

Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..

Lithe :: Lithe (a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis..

Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..

Retrorse :: Retrorse (a.) Bent backward or downward.

Curvature :: Curvature (n.) The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve..

Worm-shaped :: Worm-shaped (a.) Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shaped root..

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Curvant :: Curvant (p. pr.) Bowed; bent; curved.

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints..

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