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Flex [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Flax.

Flex [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bend; as, to flex the arm.

Flexanimous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having power to change the mind. [Not used.]

Flexanimous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having power to change the mind.

Flexed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flexibility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The quality of admitting to be bent; pliancy; flexibleness; as the flexibility of rays of light.

2. Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of yielding to arguments, persuasion or circumstances; ductility of mind; readiness to comply; facility; as flexibility of temper.

Flexibility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.

Flexible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be bent; capable of being turned or forced from a straight line or form without breaking; pliant; yielding to pressure; not stiff; as a flexible rod; a flexible plant.

2. Capable of yielding to intreaties, arguments or other moral force; that may be persuaded to compliance; not invincibly rigid; or obstinate; not inexorable.

3. Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.

4. It often denotes, easy or too easy to yield or comply; wavering; inconstant; not firm.

5. Ductile; manageable; tractable; as the tender and flexible minds of youth. flexible years or time of life, the time when the mind is tractable.

6. That may be turned or accommodated.

7. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.

Flexible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.

3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.

Flexibleness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Possibility to be bent or turned from a straight line or form without breaking; easiness to be bent; pliantness; pliancy; flexibility.

2. Facility of mind; readiness to comply or yield; obsequiousness; as the flexibleness of a courtier.

Flexicostate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having bent or curved ribs.

Flexile [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pliant; pliable; easily bent; yielding to power, impulse or moral force.

Flexile [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.

Flexing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flexion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of bending.

2. A bending; a part bent; a fold.

3. A turn; a cast; as a flexion of the eye.

Flexion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

2. A bending; a part bent; a fold.

3. Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.

4. The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.

Flexor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In anatomy, a muscle whose office is to bend the part to which it belongs, in opposition to the extensors.

Flexor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.

Flexuose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Flexuous.

Flexuous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Winding; having turns or windings; as a flexuous rivulet.

2. Bending; winding; wavering; not steady; as a flexuous flame.

3. In botany, bending or bent; changing its direction in a curve, from joint to joint, from bud to bud, or from flower to flower.

Flexuous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having turns, windings, or flexures.

2. Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

3. Wavering; not steady; flickering.

Flexural [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

Flexure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A winding or bending; the form of bending; as the flexure of a joint.

2. The act of bending.

3. The part bent; a joint.

4. The bending of the body; obsequious or servile cringe.

Flexure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.

2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.

3. The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.

4. The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.