Word Meanings - BOUGHTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bending. Sherwood.

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• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• BENDY
  Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.
• BENDABLE
  Capable of being bent.
• BENDLET
  A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
• BENDWISE
  Diagonally.
• BEND
  To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden. Syn. -- To lean; stoop; deflect;
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.
• HELLBENDER
  A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.
• PREBEND
  praebenda, from L. praebere to hold forth, afford, contr. fr. praehibere; prae before + habere to have, hold. See Habit, and cf. 1. A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral
• PREBENDARY
  1. A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook. 2. A prebendaryship. Bailey.
• PREBENDAL
  Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.
• UNBEND
  Etym: 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. 2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. You do unbend your
• PREBENDARYSHIP
  The office of a prebendary.
• HABENDUM
  That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum. Kent.
• PERBEND
  See PERPENDER
• PREBENDATE
  To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. Grafton.
• PREBENDSHIP
  A prebendaryship. Foxe.
• BIG BEND STATE
  Tennessee; -- a nickname.
• UNBENDING
  1. Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 2. Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute;