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Looped :: Looped (a.) Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string..

Debenture :: Debenture (n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.

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

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

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

Crane :: Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask..

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

Refracted :: Refracted (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf..

Incurvate :: Incurvate (a.) Curved; bent; crooked.

Lithy :: Lithy (a.) Easily bent; pliable.

Lambent :: Lambent (a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

Flexion :: Flexion (n.) A bending; a part bent; a fold.

Kneed :: Kneed (a.) Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass..

Absorbent :: Absorbent (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

Describent :: Describent (n.) Same as Generatrix.

Decumbently :: Decumbently (adv.) In a decumbent posture.

Stirrup :: Stirrup (v. i.) A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body..

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla..

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

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