incurvated

“Their characteristics are -- bill strong, a little incurvated; toes, three before, none behind; legs long, and naked above the knees.”

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832

“In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's”

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

“Thence it was gathered into the great littoral current flowing from Africa to Asia, and formed an incurvated coast-line ending in the headland of Casios, on the Syrian frontier.”

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)

“Fig. 222 is of more elaborate design; the use of garnet is again apparent, but the spaces between the jewellery are filled with a double row of incurvated ornaments, made of fine threads of gold; sometimes these threads of gold are reeded, or plaited, of two or three finer gold threads.”

Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture

“Its leaves, or rather its palms, crown a trunk of eighty or one hundred feet high; their direction is almost perpendicular when young, as well as at their full growth, the points only being incurvated.”

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2

“These columns moved forward on the surface of the sea, and the clouds not following them with equal rapidity, they assumed a bent or incurvated shape, and frequently appeared crossing each other, evidently proceeding in different directions; from whence we concluded, that it being calm, each of these water-spouts caused a wind of its own.”

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14

“After some time the last water-spout was incurvated and broke like the others, with this difference, that its disjunction was attended with a flash of lightning, but no explosion was heard.”

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14

“His chin was so long, so peaked, and incurvated, as to form in profile, with his impending forehead, the exact resemblance of a moon in the first quarter.”

The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

“On the 9th the incurvated posture was relinquished, and the head sunk back upon the pillow; the respirations then diminished in frequency, till they became only two in a minute; and at the end of twenty-four hours they very gradually ceased. [”

Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart