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Made hollow; bent round or in.

r sedition; an agitator; an exciter. Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley.

Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley.

Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost. Inclined plane. (Mech.) (a) A plane that makes an oblique angle with the plane of the horizon; a sloping plane. When used to produce pressure, or as a means of moving bodies, it is one of the mechanical powers, so called. (b) (Railroa…

Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley.

Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent. Two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it. Sir H. Wotton. To move the incumbent load they try. Addison.

Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.

The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham.

A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards. Sir T. Browne.

Not devoted. [Obs.] Bentley. Clarendon.

Discovery made; information. Bentley.

Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in æstivation.

Bent; turned; deflected.

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…

Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

y inherence; inseparably. Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy. Bentley.

to hinder. Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. Bentley.

To impress, as an animating power, or instinct. [Obs.] Bentley.

Instruction; education. [Obs.] Bentley.