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Situated under the endocardium.

Situated under the endyma.

To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.

To bend forward. [R.] Owen.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

et in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

To form or bend into the shape of an arch. The horse arched his neck. Charlesworth.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.

A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana. [Written also avocette.]

ar and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak. His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. Macaulay.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

ut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

pl. Etym: [Prob. fr. AS. beáh ring, fr. b to bend. See 1st Bow.] (Naut.)

imp. & p. p. of Bend.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak.