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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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
I don’t think so much of my incurve, though I’m trying to make it break a little more sharply.
From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield
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
His shoulders were bowed, the incurve of his thin stomach following the line of his back.
From The Under Dog by Francis Hopkinson Smith
The next was an incurve, but Brassy swung at it and missed again.
From The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up by Edward Stratemeyer
There were teeth in the beak, too, like a series of sharp incurved hooks.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Standard with a spur at the base; keel broad, merely incurved.
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
Leaves deeply 2–3-cleft or -parted, incurved, the lobes subulate, formed of a somewhat double series of cells; underleaves similar; perianth ciliate.
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
Crown as in n. 1, but with an incurved horn rising from the cavity of each hood.
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
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
Near the shore the waves broke into white sprites of foam against the deep, incurving cliffs.
From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook
Deep among the incurving petals of the blushing-fragrance, he loses himself in his joys sometimes, till a breezy waft reveals him.
From Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
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
Her foretopgallant-sail swelled to its cotton-like hue out of the black shadow of its incurving.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891 by Various
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