incurve
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of incurve
First recorded in 1600–10, incurve is from the Latin word incurvāre to bend in, curve. See in- 2, curve
Example Sentences
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His shoulders were bowed, the incurve of his thin stomach following the line of his back.
From The Under Dog by Francis Hopkinson Smith
This prolongation should incurve below, a fifteenth part of the distance a. b. projected on two arcs, the upper one the greater, the lower the less.
From Of the Just Shaping of Letters by Albrecht D?rer
He captained the baseball team, and could pitch an incurve and a swift drop ball that made him a demi-god to those who had vainly tried to hit his twisters.
From The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by James R. [pseud.] Driscoll
The blade is two-edged, widening from a sharp point to two shoulders from 3 to 4 centimeters apart, whence the edges incurve gradually and finally end in two projecting spurs 3 or 4 centimeters apart.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
He knew what he wanted, and by and by he got one—one about knee-high with a little incurve to it.
From The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
There were teeth in the beak, too, like a series of sharp incurved hooks.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Palpi compressed, incurved in front of the head, the sides convex or angular; the last joint erect, pointing vertically.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
Flowers pale-yellow, sparingly dotted with brownish-red; sac dilated and very obtuse, broader than long, tipped with a short incurved spur.—Moist shady places and along rills, in rich soil; most common northward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Keel of the corolla with the included stamens and style elongated, strongly incurved, not spirally coiled.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Ovary 12–35-celled, the concave summit tipped with a globular projection at the centre, around which are the radiate stigmas; these project at the margin, and are extended into linear and incurved sterile appendages.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves.
From Time Magazine Archive
When spaces between the incurving hooks and the border are filled out with color, the familiar design on the second half of 5 results.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
It did not come; the graceful incurving of the white hull ended in the sweep of counter above the tip of a propeller blade, and the dory drifted on into the mist astern.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
On its incurving back it holds firmly the vowels; with its tip, many of the consonants.
From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich
Fifteen minutes later she was storming by, a half-mile to windward; a beautiful picture, long and white, with an incurving ram-bow, with buff-colored turrets and superstructure, and black guns bristling from all parts of her.
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson
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