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Recurved :: Recurved (a.) Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals..

Yoke :: Yoke (n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.

Accumbent :: Accumbent (n.) One who reclines at table.

Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman..

Belly :: Belly (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse..

Lugsail :: Lugsail (n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.

Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.

Offset :: Offset (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside..

Bent :: Bent (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.

Bowable :: Bowable (a.) Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.

Eyelet :: Eyelet (n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole..

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the

Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..

Coupee :: Coupee (n.) A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made..

Malignant :: Malignant (a.) Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious..

Recumbence :: Recumbence (n.) The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent..

Superinduced :: Superincumbent (a.) Lying or resting on something else.

Retroflexed :: Retroflexed (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

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