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Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

Same as Bent, a kind of grass.

Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.

Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the…

One who believes in Benthamism.

The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals. The Roman.. accumbent posture in eating. Arbuthnot.

Bent, like a bow. Milton.

Lying down; recumbent. J. Dyer.

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the…

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.

In a decumbent posture.

Same as Generatrix.

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