4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. "Except she bend her humor." Shak.
5. (Naut.)
Defn: To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.
Syn.
— To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield.
BEND
Bend, v. i.
1. To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow. The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. Milton.
2. To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.
3. To be inclined; to be directed. To whom our vows and wished bend. Milton.
4. To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge.
BEND
Bend, n. Etym: [See Bend, v. t., and cf. Bent, n.]