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The next was an incurve, but Brassy swung at it and missed again.

From The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch The Cowboys' Double Round-Up by Edward Stratemeyer

The blade is two-edged, widening from a sharp point to two shoulders from 3 to 4 centimeters apart, whence the edges incurve gradually and finally end in two projecting spurs 3 or 4 centimeters apart.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan

The first ball he pitched was an incurve, but it looked good to the batter, and he swung at it viciously.

From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield

If by any chance the supply of detritus is increased, they fill in between the horns, diminish the incurve of the bay, and so cause its beach to be more exposed to heavy waves.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

This prolongation should incurve below, a fifteenth part of the distance a. b. projected on two arcs, the upper one the greater, the lower the less.

From Of the Just Shaping of Letters by Albrecht D?rer

There were teeth in the beak, too, like a series of sharp incurved hooks.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Petals broad, the keel obtuse and slightly incurved.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Body elongated, slender, in the male six-jointed, the last with two approximating incurved hooks; valves broad, thickened, truncate, and hooked.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

Creeping; leaves somewhat rigid, repand, deeply lobed; lobes rounded, submucronate, the lower appressed, the upper convex with incurved apex; perianth ovate, denticulate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Keel of the corolla with the included stamens and style elongated, strongly incurved, not spirally coiled.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the little seed of this tree is long and slender, its wing prolonged into two incurving hooks.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

Deep among the incurving petals of the blushing-fragrance, he loses himself in his joys sometimes, till a breezy waft reveals him.

From Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

On its incurving back it holds firmly the vowels; with its tip, many of the consonants.

From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich

Everything in his make-up helped: the broad, square shoulders, arms held close to his side; flat waist; incurving back and narrow hips.

From Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero by Francis Hopkinson Smith