Bending; crooked; curved.n. A continuous bending; a flexure without angles; usually, as a concrete noun, a one-way geometrical locus which may be conceived as described by a point moving along a line round which as axis turns a plane, while the line rotates in the plane round the point.n. Anything continuously bent.n. A draftsman's instrument for forming curved figures.n. In base-ball, the course of a ball so pitched that it does not pass in a straight line from the pitcher to the catcher, but makes a deflection in the air other than the ordinary one caused by the force of gravity: as, it was difficult to gage the curves of the pitcher.To bend; cause to take the shape of a curve; crook; inflect.To have or assume a curved or flexed form: as, to curve inward.