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Inflective. "Inflexive endings." W. E. Jelf.

An inflection; a bend or fold. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Flexed or bent inward.

The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. Krauth-Fleming.

Bad execution. D. Webster.

Manifold; multiple.

to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. Locke.

Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious. -- Per*plex"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*plex"ed*ness, n.

Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome. "Perplexing thoughts." Milton.

The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Perplexedly. [Obs.] Milton.

Felsite.

Like network; complicated. Quincy.

ntact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion. [Written also plexometer.]

The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together. H. Brooke.

A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.

the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

Apoplexy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.