incurvity†; incurvation†; bend; flexure, flexion, flection†; conflexure†;
crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion†; inflection,
inflexion†; concameration†; arcuation†, devexity†, turn, deviation,
detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity†, recurvation†; sinuosity
&c 248.
kink.
carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule†,
horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral;
catenary†, festoon; conchoid†, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched
ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window.
sine curve; spline, spline curve, spline function; obliquity &c
217.
V. be curved, &c adj.; curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate &c 279;
curl, turn; reenter.
render curved &c adj.; flex, bend, curve, incurvate†; inflect;
deflect, scatter [Phys.]; refract (light) 420; crook; turn, round,
arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate†; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle.
rotundity &c 249; convexity &c 250.
Adj. curved &c v.; curviform†, curvilineal†, curvilinear; devex†,
devious; recurved, recurvous†; crump†; bowed &c v.; vaulted, hooked;
falciform†, falcated†; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid [Geom.],
parabolic, paraboloid; luniform†, lunular†; semilunar, conchoidal†;
helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform†, cordated†; cardioid;
heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped,
moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped,
pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform†,
lenticular; bow-legged &c (distorted) 243; oblique &c 217; circular &c
247.
aduncated†, arclike†, arcuate, arched, beaked; bicorn†, bicornuous†,
bicornute†; clypeate†, clypeiform†; cymbiform†, embowed†, galeiform†;
hamate†, hamiform†, hamous†; hooked; linguiform†, lingulate†; lobiform†,
lunate, navicular†, peltate†, remiform†, rhamphoid†; rostrate†,
rostriferous†, rostroid†; scutate†, scaphoid†, uncate†; unguiculate†,
unguiform†.