ppl. a. [f. CURVE v.] Bent or formed into a curve; bending; deviating from the straight (or plane) form continuously, i.e., without angles. (It has partly taken the place of CURVE a.)
1710. J. Clarke, Rohault’s Nat. Phil. (1729), I. 83. The Motion will be made in a Line differently curved.
1797. Bewick, Brit. Birds (1847), I. 111. The … claws are curved and short.
1818. Shelley, Lines Euganean Hills. From the curved horizon’s bound.
1869. Tyndall, Notes on Light, § 79. Reflexion from Curved Surfaces.
Hence Curvedly adv., in a curved manner; Curvedness, state of being curved. (rare.)
1676. Wiseman, Surg., VII. i. (R.). A curvedness, which may be reduced to a fracture.
1805. Luccock, Nat. Wool, 152. That the wool … possess … such a degree of curvedness.
1880. Watson, in Jrnl. Linn. Soc., XV. No. 82. 109. Lines … curvedly radiating.
