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Word Meanings - INCURVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

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  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • ANGULARITY
    The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
  • CROOKBILL
    A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
  • BOW OAR
    . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
  • BOWGE
    To swell out. See Bouge.
  • BOWKNOT
    A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
  • TURNSTONE
    Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
  • TURNINGNESS
    The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
  • TURNING
    The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
  • CROOKES TUBE
    A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
  • BOWYER
    1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
  • TURN-SICK
    Giddy. Bacon.
  • BOWLER
    One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
  • CROOKBACK
    A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
  • DEFORMATION
    1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
  • CROOKNECK
    Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
  • CURVIROSTRES
    A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
  • TURNVEREIN
    A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
  • TURNHALLE
    A building used as a school of gymnastics.
  • CROOKEDLY
    In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
  • RE-TURN
    To turn again.
  • EMBOWER
    To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
  • SUBPENTANGULAR
    Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
  • DISEMBOWERED
    Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
  • NOCTURNAL
    1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
  • EMBOWL
    To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SATURNISM
    Plumbum. Quain.
  • DIUTURNAL
    Of long continuance; lasting. Milton.
  • TRICURVATE
    Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
  • OVERTURN
    1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.

 

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