Bend
King James Dictionary [1]
Bend, L.pando,pandare, to bend in pando, pandere, to open pandus, bent, crooked
1. To strain, or to crook by straining as, to bend a bow. 2. To crook to make crooked to curve to inflect as, to bend the arm. 3. To direct to a certain point as, to bend our steps or course to a particular place. 4. To exert to apply closely to exercise laboriously to intend or stretch as, to bend the mind to study. 5. To prepare or put in order for use to stretch or strain.
He hath bent his bow and made it ready. Psalms 7
6. To incline to be determined that is, to stretch towards, or cause to tend as, to be bent on mischief. 7. To subdue to cause to yield to make submissive as, to bend a man to our will. 8. In seamanship, to fasten, as one rope to another or to an anchor to fasten, as a sail to its yard or stay to fasten, as a cable to the ring of an anchor. 9. To bend the brow, is to knit the brow to scowl to frown.
Bend, To be crooked to crook,or be curving.
1. To incline to lean or turn as, a road bends to the west. 2. To jut over as a bending cliff. 3. To resolve, or determine.See Bent on. 4. To bow or be submissive. Isaiah 60
BEND,n. A curve a crook a turn in a road or river flexure incurvation.
1. In marine language, that part of a rope which is fastened to another or to an anchor. See To bend. No 8 2. Bends of a ship, are the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They are reckoned from the water, first, second or third bend. They have the beams,knees, and foot hooks bolted to them, and are the chief strength of the ship's sides. 3. In heraldry, one of the nine honorable ordinaries, containing a third part of the field, when charged, and a fifth, when plain. It is made by two lines drawn across from the dexter chief, to the sinister base point. It sometimes is indented, ingrained, &c.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
(2): (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
(3): (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
(4): (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
(5): (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
(6): (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
(7): (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
(8): (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
(9): (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(10): (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
(11): (n.) A band.
(12): (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
(13): (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
(14): (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
(15): (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
(16): (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
(17): (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
