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Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

Having bent or curved ribs.

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth.

The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.

Flexuous.

Having turns, windings, or flexures.

Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending. Will it give place to flexure and low bending Shak.

The holm oak (Quercus Ilex).

Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex. The fable of every poem is . . . simple or implex. it is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Addison.

Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.

Not complex; uncompounded; simple. Barrow.

To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect. J. Philips.

Turned; bent. Feltham.

The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Ch…

e turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison.

The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.

In an inflexible manner.

Inflection.