Available Definitions:
1) - imp. & p. p. of Bend.
2) a. & p. p. - Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
3) a. & p. p. - Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
4) v. - The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
5) v. - A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
6) v. - A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
7) v. - Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
8) v. - A transverse frame of a framed structure.
9) v. - Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
10) n. - A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
11) n. - A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
12) n. - Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
13) n. - The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt .
14) n. - Hard, indurated clay; bind.
15) n. - same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
16) n. - A band.
17) n. - One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.