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Square :: Square (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame..

Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

Timber :: Timber (n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united..

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks..

Chock :: Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc..

Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop..

Homomallous :: Homomallous (a.) Uniformly bending or curving to one side; -- said of leaves which grow on several sides of a stem.

Rim :: Rim (n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin..

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..

Boomerang :: Boomerang (n.) A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward t

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

Aquiline :: Aquiline (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.

Elephant :: Elephant (n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing..

Assurgent :: Assurgent (a.) rising obliquely; curving upward.

Recurvation :: Recurvation (n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward..

Curving :: Curving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curv.

Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending..

Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.

Scythe :: Scythe (n.) An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use..

Incurvation :: Incurvation (n.) The act of bending, or curving..

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