1. past tense and past participle of bend1.
2. altered from an originally straight or even condition: pieces of bent wire.
3. determined to take a course of action: I was bent on going to the theater.
4. chiefly british corrupt; venal.
5. A tendency, disposition, or inclination: "the natural bent of my mind was to science” ( Thomas Paine).
6. A transverse structural member or framework used for strengthening a bridge or trestle.
7. bent grass.
8. the stiff stalk of various grasses.
9. an area of grassland unbounded by hedges or fences.

1. simple past tense and past participle of bend.
2. folded, dented
3. homosexual.
4. determined or insistent.
5. of a person leading a life of crime.
6. inaccurate at shooting
7. suffering from the bends
8. high from using both marijuana and alcohol.
9. an inclination or talent.
10. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
11. any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
12. A grassy area, grassland.

1. imp. & p. p. of bend.
2. changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked.
3. strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on.
4. the state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
5. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
6. A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
7. particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
8. A transverse frame of a framed structure.
9. tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
10. A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
11. A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. the name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in america.
12. any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

1. curved; deflected; crooked: as, a bent stick.
2. determined; set.
3. in mining, said of a coal-seam which is difficult to work on account of the unequal distribution of the weight of the overlying strata.
4. bound in some direction or toward an aim; set; pointing toward something.
5. . the state of being bent; curved form or position; flexure; curvature.
6. A curved part; a crook or bend.
7. degree of flexure or curvature; tension; straining; utmost force or power: an archery expression, but used figuratively of mental disposition.
8. declivity; slope.
9. inclination; disposition; a leaning or bias of mind; propensity: as, the bent of the mind or will; the bent of a people toward an object.
10. direction taken; turn or winding.
11. in carpentry, a segment or section of a framed building, as of a long barn or warehouse.
12. A framed portion of a wooden scaffolding or trestlework, usually put together on the ground and then raised to its place.
13. A large piece of timber.
14. A cast, as of the eye; direction.
15.
16. any stiff or wiry grass, such as grows on commons or neglected ground.
17. the culm or stalk of bent; a stalk of coarse withered grass; a dead stem of grass which has borne seed.
18. A place covered with grass; a field; uninclosed pasture-land; a heath.
19. the articulated group of members forming a plane frame of a framed structure, such as a bridge-truss, a braced pier, or a building-frame. A bent of trestle would comprise all the members in one transverse plane, including the sill, cap, vertical and inclined posts, and transverse bracing-members.
20. A cleavage-plate of slate whose sides are slightly curved, cut from gently folded beds.

1. a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
2. grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
3. an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
4. used of the back and knees; stooped
5. fixed in your purpose
6. a special way of doing something
7. of metal e.g.