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Bent, folded, or tied, so as to make a loop; as, a looped wire or string.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.

r perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine and shake Dryden. On the make,bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. [Low, U. S.]

r disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.

ering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

Early; soon. [A Latinism, little used] Bentley.

The act or process of increasing to the highest degree. Bentham.

To increase to the highest degree. Bentham.

besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident. Bentley.

The act or process of minimizing. Bentham.

To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum. Bentham.

Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.

as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley.

abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment and consequence of us than the others. Bentley.

W. Scott. Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.

to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot.

accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Bentley.

Business; occupation. [Obs.] Bentley.

cts, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared. Bentley.

Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.