incurve

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 Stratemeyer, Edward

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 Duffield, J. W.

He captained the baseball team, and could pitch an incurve and a swift drop ball that made him a demi-god to those who had vainly tried to hit his twisters.

From The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by Driscoll, James R. [pseud.]

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 D?rer, Albrecht

He knew what he wanted, and by and by he got one—one about knee-high with a little incurve to it.

From The U-boat hunters by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

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

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Creeping, pinnately compound, the branches often flagellate; leaves decurved, subquadrate, 3–4-cleft; involucral leaves ovate, truncate, unequally 4-toothed; perianth incurved, dentate.—On the ground and rotten wood, N. J., and common northward.

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 Gray, Asa

Crown of 5 hooded bodies seated on the tube of stamens, each containing an incurved horn.

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 Gray, Asa

Standard with a spur at the base; keel broad, merely 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 Gray, Asa

Calyx 5-lobed, incurved; the lower part cohering with the thick disk to the ovary, the upper separating across in fruit.

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 Gray, Asa

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 Rogers, Julia Ellen

It was, in general, bottle-shaped, with an incurving shoulder at the top so that anything that fell in could not climb out.

From The World That Couldn't Be by Simak, Clifford D.

She talked to him winsomely and very kindly as they crossed the open down to meet the next incurving of the coast, and Siegmund was happy.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Cœlospermous, applied to those fruits of Umbellifer� which have the seed hollowed on the inner face, by incurving of top and bottom; as in Coriander.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa