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An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.

usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.

pet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass o…

The act of pushing or thrusting. [R.] Bentley.

A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.

Whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley.

To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.

Not bent or arched; not bowed down. Byron.

Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible. Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. Dryden. Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone. Gay.

Hooked; bent at the tip in the form of a hook; as, an uncinate process.

One who affects to understand all the particulars in statements or propositions. [Obs.] Bentley.

Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley.

f the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.

d only; emptiness; void; vacuum. A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter. Bentley. God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. Rogers.

n young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.

ition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.

vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.

djacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood. "The vicinity of the sun." Bentley.

guess. Shak. The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. Burke. A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. De Quincey.

such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity. Bentley.