bend vb. (3 properly, to bring a gun to bear)
1.
“
up,” to strain, nerve H5 III. i. 16, Mac. I. vii. 79.
2.
“bend the brows,” &c., to frown, scowl John IV. ii.
90,
R2 II. i. 171
“Or one wrinkle on my
sovereign's face,”
Sonn. Music iv. 13 [Pilgr. 311].
3.
to level, aim, turn,
direct
John II. i. 379
“bend Your sharpest
deeds of malice,”
R3 I. ii. 95,
IV. v. 17
“do they bend their
power,”
Lr. II. i. 48
“'Gainst parricides did
all their thunders bend.”
4.
intr. and refl. to
direct one's course, turn, proceed
All'sW. III. ii. 57
“Thither we bend
again,”
Wint. V. i. 165, 1H4 V. v. 36; fig. to
tend, incline
Tp. IV. i. 174
“always bending Towards
their project,”
Ham. I. ii. 55,
115
“bend you to remain
Here,”
Sonn. cxvi. 4. See also
BENT pa. pple.
