Word Meanings - BENDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENDING)

• Supple
• Pliant
• bending
• yielding
• flexible
• elastic
• servile
• fawning
• cringing
• adulatory
• sycophantic
• lithe
• limber
• compliant

Related words: (words related to BENDING)

• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• LITHERLY
  Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy. He was waspish, arch, and litherly. Sir W. Scott.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• BENDER
  1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. Bartlett. 4. A sixpence.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• SUPPLELY
  In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
• COMPLIANT
  Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
• LITHENESS
  The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
• LITHER
  Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful. Chaucer. Not lither in business, fervent in spirit. Bp. Woolton. Note: Professor Skeat thinks " the lither sky" as found in Shakespeare's Henry VI. means the stagnant or pestilential sky. -- Li"ther*ly,
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• BENDING
  The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.
• COMPLIANTLY
  In a compliant manner.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• OVERBEND
  To bend to excess.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• BLITHELY
  In a blithe manner.