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
It did not come; the graceful incurving of the white hull ended in the sweep of counter above the tip of a propeller blade, and the dory drifted on into the mist astern.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
Near the shore the waves broke into white sprites of foam against the deep, incurving cliffs.
From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret O'Bannon Womack Vandercook
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
She had neither the raking bow nor the rising poop of the local mehala, but a tall incurving beak, not unlike those of certain Mesopotamian sculptures, with a windowed and curtained deck-house at the stern.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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