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round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

ugh a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.

To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge. Evelyn.

The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.

Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart. The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason. South.…

The bend of the wing of a bird.

A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

To bend. [Obs.] As men may warm wax with handes plie. Chaucer.

antor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.

Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. What humble gestures! What profound reverence! Dupp

Bending forward; inclined; not erect. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone. Milton.

The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

An instrument for bending a bow.

A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.

Rankly; stoutly; violently. [Obs.] That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell. Fairfax.

Bending or leaning backward.

Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.

To bend or curve back; to recurve. Pennant.

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.