BENT
\bˈɛnt], \bˈɛnt], \b_ˈɛ_n_t]\
Definitions of BENT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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imp. & p. p. of Bend.
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Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
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The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
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A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
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A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
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Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
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A transverse frame of a framed structure.
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Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
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A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
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A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
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Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
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Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; - said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
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Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
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The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
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A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
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A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
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Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
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A transverse frame of a framed structure.
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Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
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A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
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A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
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Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
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imp. & p. p. of Bend.
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Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; - said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
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Of bend.
By Noah Webster.
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Of bend.
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Curved; crooked; strongly inclined; determined.
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A turn; a leaning (mental or intellectual) toward something; as, a bent for music; disposition; a stiff or wiry grass.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Imp. & pp. of BEND, v.
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Tendency; disposition.
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The limit of endurance or capacity.
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A stiff wiry grass.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Curved; inclined; prone to; determined; in bot., hanging down towards the ground.
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The culms or dry stalks of pasture grasses; a coarse grass which creeps and roots rapidly through the soil by its wiry and jointed stems, and thus binds it together, very difficult to eradicate.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. State of being inclined from a straight line; curvity;—leaning or bias; propensity;—particular direction or tendency.
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The state of being bent; degree of flexure; declivity; utmost power; application of the mind; inclination, disposition towards something; determination, fixed purpose; turn of the temper or disposition; tendency, flexion; a stalk or grass, called the Bent-grass.
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par. of the berb To bend. Made crooked; directed to a certain point; determined upon.
By Thomas Sheridan
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