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

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

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

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 Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

The acorns of the red oak are large, and set in shallow saucers, with incurving rims.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen