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Bent
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
(2):
(v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
(3):
(v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
(4):
of Bend
(5):
(n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
(6):
(v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
(7):
(n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
(8):
(v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
(9):
(n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
(10):
(v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
(11):
(a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
(12):
(a. & p. p.) 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.
(13):
imp. & p. p. of Bend.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bent'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bent.html. 1828.
