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ocess; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.

Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious. Bentley wrote a letter . . . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey.

Flexed or bent inward.

To make or render invalid or infirm. "Invalided, bent, and almost blind." Dickens.

er with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.

A bent piece of iron inserted to strengthen the joints of a wall.

Crooked; arched; bent. [Written also kimbow.] Dryden.

Turned upward; bent. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

iece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

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

isting of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent.

A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking. [Written also knack-kneed.]

Laminate. Laminated arch (Arch.), a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.

Slow in progress; tardy. " No motion so swift or languid." Bentley.

ason of its comparative levity to the fluidity that incloses it, would ascend to the top. Bentley.

Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. Milton. The bargeman that doth row with long and limber oar. Turbervile.

Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. Milton.

Easily bent; pliable. Lithy tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum Lantana); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem.