† incurvityn.
Obsolete.
The quality of being incurved; inward curvature.
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incurvity1646
inturn1690
incurvature1809
incurvation1822
incurving1865
inbending1881
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. ii. 235 Men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bowe. View more context for this quotation
1668–9 Sir T. Browne Wks. (1848) III. 512 The little incurvitie at the upper end of the upper bill, and small recurvitie of the lower.
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