Flexure

Definitions

1. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
   countable, uncountable
2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
   countable, uncountable
3. A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
   countable, uncountable
4. A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
   countable, uncountable
5. The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
   countable, uncountable
6. The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take⟳ the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear⟳ before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own⟳ cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure⟳ at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry⟳ myself on this wise?”

“varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered”

“The Stomach [of a weasel] about three inches long; proportionably, more than a Dogs. An inch in Diametre at the upper Orifice; and the nether, ¼; having a flexure towards its Conjunction with the Guts: ſhaped like⟳ to the body of a pair of Bag-Pipes.”

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