·noun Hard, indurated clay; bind.
II. Bend ·noun A Band.
III. Bend ·noun Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
IV. Bend ·vi To be inclined; to be directed.
V. Bend ·vi To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
VI. Bend ·vi To jut over; to Overhang.
VII. Bend ·noun ·same·as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
VIII. Bend ·vt To apply closely or with interest; to Direct.
IX. Bend ·noun The best quality of sole leather; a butt. ·see Butt.
X. Bend ·vt To cause to yield; to render submissive; to Subdue.
XI. Bend ·noun A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
XII. Bend ·vi To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to Bow.
XIII. Bend ·vt To turn toward some certain point; to Direct; to Incline.
XIV. Bend ·vt 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.
XV. Bend ·noun 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.
XVI. Bend ·noun 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.
XVII. Bend ·vt 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.