incurving
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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
It was where an uprooted tree, fallen across an incurving bank, made a snug little recess that was closed in on three sides.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Her foretopgallant-sail swelled to its cotton-like hue out of the black shadow of its incurving.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891 by Various
The acorns of the red oak are large, and set in shallow saucers, with incurving rims.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
It did not come; the graceful incurving of the white hull ended in the sweep of counter above the tip of a propeller blade, and the dory drifted on into the mist astern.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
