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In an incumbent manner; so as to be incumbent.

Slipping; sliding; gliding. [R.]

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.

Lying down, or on the face; prone. " Procumbent each obeyed." Cowper.

Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle. -- Re*cum"bent*ly, adv.

Swallowing up. Wodhull.

An absorbent. [R.]

Submissive; yielding. [R.] Howell.

Lying or resting on something else.

Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.

To hide; to conceal. [Obs.] Bentley.

The state of being accumbent or reclining. [R.]

onsisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleas…

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

R.] God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley.

ed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. The admirable structure of animate bodies. Bentley.

holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot t…

Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent.