Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Curved upward; recurved: as, in entomology, an up-curved margin.
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Examples
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It was long, with the same up-curved bow and low stern as other boats nearby, the same flat rail running all around, the same rubber-skidded platform on the back.
The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004
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It was long, with the same up-curved bow and low stern as other boats nearby, the same flat rail running all around, the same rubber-skidded platform on the back.
The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004
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The type with oval, slightly up-curved tines, five or six in number, and a D handle, is the most convenient and comfortable for garden use.
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Fifty yards up-deck, where perspective and the sheer of the ship gave the promenade the appearance of a long, up-curved tunnel, the boys caught sight of a gang of men scrubbing down deck.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923
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Be ran his hand over the bulging raquette with the long tail and the slightly up-curved end.
The Silent Places 1904
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The man was a little sawed-off, red-headed Irishman, with twinkling, gimlet eyes, two up-curved lips always in a broad smile, and a pair of thin, caliper-shaped legs.
The Under Dog Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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Then something like a light ring of smoke up-curved from the saddle before him, and, slowly uncoiling itself in mid air, dropped gently to the ground as he passed.
Maruja Bret Harte 1869
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Her very hands looked blind and trying to see, as, with fine up-curved tips, they went wandering over the tops of the live peats.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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A moment later I was nearly knocked over by a big boar with reddish bristles and up-curved fangs, a "wart hog."
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859
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The final cut piece has up-curved wingtips thanks to the plate's shape.
MAKE Magazine 2009
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