incurving
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Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the little seed of this tree is long and slender, its wing prolonged into two incurving hooks.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
On its incurving back it holds firmly the vowels; with its tip, many of the consonants.
From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Aldrich, Richard
Fifteen minutes later she was storming by, a half-mile to windward; a beautiful picture, long and white, with an incurving ram-bow, with buff-colored turrets and superstructure, and black guns bristling from all parts of her.
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan
The hang of that coat, the long, incurving sweep in the back, and the high fur collar up to one's nose—even if it is a turned-up nose—oh!
From In the Bishop's Carriage by Michelson, Miriam
