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▪ I. incurve, v.|ɪnˈkɜːv|
[ad. L. incurvā-re to bend in, bow, crook, curve, f. in- (in-2) + curvāre to crook, bend, curve, curvus crooked, bent.]
1. trans. To bend into a curved form, to curve (= incurvate v. 1); in mod. use, To curve or bend (something) inwards.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 651 The Sea now retyring South-ward: and with a mighty Compasse and sundry baies incurving the shores. 1660J. Lloyd Prim. Episc. 51 Come..to the Cup of his blood, not entending thy hands, but incurving them. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 426 Yon hollow Trunk, That with its hoary Head incurv'd salutes The passing Wave. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 146 The mountains, incurving themselves round the City. 1880in Nature XXI. 357 The steel having been violently rent and incurved.
2. intr. To take or have a curved form; to curve or bend inwards.
1704Grew Museum (L.), Towards its extremity the spine protrudes, and afterwards incurves. 1848Clough Amours de Voyage iii. 301 Those fair open fields that incurve to thy beautiful hollow.
Hence inˈcurving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1865Intell. Observ. No. 47. 339 The spiral incurving of the wind. 1880Warren Book-plates iv. 31 The incurving of the shell-work. 1884Science Jan. 42 To find the direction of the storm-centre, we must know the incurving angle of the wind's spiral.
▪ II. incurve, n.|ˈɪnkɜːv|
[f. incurve v.]
In baseball and softball, the bending or curving of a ball inwards (i.e. across the front of the batter); the course of such a ball; a ball pitched so as to curve to the right.
1886H. Chadwick Art of Pitching & Fielding 14 It is essential to change the direction of the curve from an ‘out-curve’ to an ‘in-curve’. 1906Spalding's Base Ball Guide 112 An In-curve..is a ball which curves in towards the batsman as he stands in his position. 1949M. Wadlow in Smalley & Dennis Official Softball—Track & Field Guide 17 To throw an incurve, the ball is held in the same manner as for the fast ball. |