Also courbed. [f. CURB v.1] Bent, bowed, curved.
[c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, I. xx. (1554), 36 b. Thing yt is courbyd or wrong … To make it seme as it went vpright.
c. 1450. Merlin, 261. Longe and courbed, and brode sholderes and leene for age.]
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. The lyuer … is of fygure as of the moone, curbed towarde the rybbes.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 678 (R.). By crooked and curbed lines.
1646. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, I. 50. Her haire vndrest, Like Adders on her Curbed Shoulders falls.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1704), 23. Though the Course of the Sun be curbed towards the Tropicks.
