(archery, of a bow) Having the arms curved or curled at the base so as to turn towards the archer when unstrung, reducing the strain on the limbs and also the energy stored by the weapon.
verb
(zoology, botany) To bend down.
deflux
deflux
noun
(obsolete) downward flow
efflux
efflux
noun
That which has flowed out.
verb
(intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
(intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.
flaxen
flaxen
adj
A pale yellow brown; the colour of dried flax stalks and of the fiber obtained therefrom.
Made of or resembling flax fibers.
flaxes
flaxes
noun
plural of flax
flexed
flexed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flex
flexes
flexes
noun
plural of flex
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flex
flexor
flexor
noun
A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.
fluxed
fluxed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of flux
fluxer
fluxes
fluxes
noun
plural of flux
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flux
inflex
inflex
verb
To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
reflex
reflex
adj
(geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
(painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
Bent, turned back or reflected.
Produced automatically by a stimulus.
noun
(chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
(linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
(linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
verb
(transitive) To bend back or turn back over itself.
(transitive, obsolete) To cast (beams of light) on something.
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect (light, sight, etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To reflect or mirror (an object), to show the image of.
To respond to a stimulus.
reflux
reflux
noun
(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
The backwards flow of any fluid.
verb
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser