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and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with. Bentley.

Ti cry out; to complain. [Obs.] They should sing if thet they were bent. Chaucer.

perverse. A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice. Bentley.

A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe…

o a siphon; resembling a siphon. Siphonal stomach (Zoöl.), a stomach which is tubular and bent back upon itself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.

ive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton.

A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

That which is gained by strength or effort. each science and each art his spoil. Bentley.

Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful productions of the soil. Bentley. -- Sport"ful*ly, adv. -- Sport"ful*ness, n.

To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

sects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura.

Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.

osition of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer. Wharton.

A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.

Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. [They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aërial sky. Milton.

A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight o…

ols, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

ng proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke.

o bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.

a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.