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To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle Sir I. Newton.

Bent; turned; deflected.

A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.

Turned; bent. Feltham.

Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison.

Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.

om the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner.

The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

able or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn. This austere insociable life. Shak.

h (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return. Hawthorne.

To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic] Shak.

The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim. Be thy intents wicked or charitable. Shak. The principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the Hooker. To all intents, and purposes, in all applications or senses; practically; really; virtually; essentially. "He w…

To turn to another course or use. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs. Gray.

The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley.

To turn or bend inward. "Introverted toes." Cowper.

To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. Spenser.

The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its prop…

Capable of being inverted or turned.