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 Julia Ellen Rogers
She talked to him winsomely and very kindly as they crossed the open down to meet the next incurving of the coast, and Siegmund was happy.
From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Her foretopgallant-sail swelled to its cotton-like hue out of the black shadow of its incurving.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891 by Various
It was where an uprooted tree, fallen across an incurving bank, made a snug little recess that was closed in on three sides.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
