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The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

et in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.

ine. "Bend thine ear to supplication." Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.

An instrument used for bending.

Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak.

In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. Thackeray. Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bending. [Obs.] Sherwood.

An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.

In a bending manner.

A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.

Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward. [Colloq.]

A carack. See Carack. Carrick bend (Naut.), a kind of knot, used for bending together hawsers or other ropes. -- Carrick bitts (Naut.), the bitts which support the windlass. Totten.

The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

nder Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.