transitive. To bend, cause to bow.

To assume a bent or crooked shape, position, or attitude; to bend. Obsolete exc. dialect.

intransitive for reflexive. Of the body or limbs: To bend, crook, double up, yield. Also, of a person: To bow, bend down, crouch, drop down. Obsolete.

intransitive. To draw itself into a curve, curl, curl up.

intransitive. To take or have a bent form; now only dialect or technical of a board, door, etc., to be twisted.

intransitive. To curve, bend, bow.

intransitive. To bend, bow, cringe.

intransitive. To bend or be bent; to yield, give (to pressure or movement); to be pliable or yielding.

intransitive. To assume or receive a curved form, or a shape in which one part is inclined at an angle to the other.

intransitive and transitive. To bend.

To curve, to crook (Jamieson).

transitive and intransitive. To bend, wind, fold; to link.

intransitive. To turn; esp. to turn upside down, topple over, fall down; also figurative to turn to some course or action.

intransitive. To crook or bend in a curve.

intransitive. To have or take a crooked form or direction; to be or become crooked; to bend, curve.

intransitive. To curve, bend round, be curved. (Now only of timber.) Cf. compassing, adj. b.

intransitive. To curve, to bend; to have or assume a rounded, curving form. Frequently with adverb of direction. Also figurative. Cf. to round off…

intransitive. To take or have a curved form; to curve, to bend or bow. Obsolete.

intransitive. To bend round. Obsolete.

To curve like a bow.

intransitive. To curve, to bend; to have or assume a rounded, curving form.

To move continuously in a long stretch or over a wide extent, esp. round or in a curve; †to take a curve.

intransitive. To have or assume a curved form; to lie or be placed so as to form a curve.

intransitive and transitive. To curve, bend.