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To bend; as, to flex the arm.

Having power to change the mind. [Obs.] Howell.

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.

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.

A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas.

To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.

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

Bent abruptly downward.

See Deflection.

A bending or turning aside; deflection. Bailey.

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

Turned; bent. Feltham.