Crossword clues for arching
arching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arch \Arch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arched ([aum]rcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Arching.]
To cover with an arch or arches.
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To form or bend into the shape of an arch.
The horse arched his neck.
--Charlesworth.
Arching \Arch"ing\, n.
The arched part of a structure.
(Naut.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.
Wiktionary
(context nautical English) hogging, opposed to sagging n. The arched part of a structure. v
(present participle of arch English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "arching".
He moved against her harder, more urgently, thrust himself deeper inside her, and Nicky was as unrestrained as he, her body arching up to his.
My eyes followed the delicacy of the arching ribs, the heartbreaking beauty of the sculptured skull with a sense of awed astonishment.
From which position she was ideally placed to see Rollo race from the trees in a long, low streak and launch himself in an arching parabola from the top of the bank.
Ysterialpoerin before arching its neck and beginning to lower itself slowly toward the snow.
Here then the arching of the plumule plays the same part as in the case of the petioles of the Delphinium.
It may, however, be suggested with some degree of probability that the arching was aboriginally caused by mechanical compulsion, owing to the confinement of the parts in question within the seedcoats, or to friction whilst they were being dragged upwards.
As the arching occurred in whatever position the seeds were placed, it is no doubt due to temporarily increased growth of the nature of epinasty or hyponasty along one side of the part.
It is therefore not surprising that it should be inherited, at least to some extent, by plants having hypogean cotyledons, in which the hypocotyl is only slightly developed and never protrudes above the ground, and in which the arching is of course now quite useless.
She moved quickly, arching up in her spine and dislocating the hinge of her jaws, unfurling her great hollow fangs.
She smiled and headed down the catwalk through the arching trees, completely enchanted.
His erection was a pale, smooth column arching rigidly up to his navel.
She groaned and released his neck to fall back, arching and stretching, luxuriating in the sinful delight of a bath.
The dry heat of his flesh against hers had her hips arching in desperation.
She was bucking against him, her head twisting against the sheets of the bed, arching desperately, begging now for release.
He drove against her harder, deeper, one hard hand spanning her hip as he held her still, the other under her shoulders, arching her breasts to his devouring mouth.