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Crook
CROOK, n. [G., the back, or ridge of an animal. L., a wrinkle, a circle; rough, hoarse. The radical sense of crook is to strain or draw; hence, to bend.]
1. Any bend, turn or curve; or a bent or curving instrument. We speak of a crook in a stick of timber, or in a river; and any hook is a crook.
2. A shepherd staff, curving at the end; a pastoral staff. When used by a bishop or abbot, it is called a crosier.
He left his crook, he left his flocks.
3. A gibbet.
4. An artifice; a trick.
CROOK, v.t.
1. To bend; to turn from a straight line; to make a curve or hook.
2. To turn from rectitude; to pervert.
3. To thwart. [Little used.]
CROOK, v.i. To bend or be bent; to be turned from a right line; to curve; to wind.
crook appears in definitions for these words:
Albatros Ammonite Amyztli Antigugler Arcuation Baker-legged Bandy-legged Bandying Bend Bended Bennet Bent Bevel Bill Bimbow Bistoury Bossive Bow-bent Bow-legged Brace Bunch Camous Clamp Club-footed Coralliform Corbe Courb Cow-itch Cowhage Crane Crook Crook-back Crook-kneed Crooked Crooken Crosier Crotch Crotchet Crow Crump Curvature Curve Curving Curvity Cycloidal Deformity Deprave Direct Distortion Eagle Encroach Falcation Falchion Gambrel Gibbous Hawk Hawked Hook Housed Hump Humpback Humpbacked Hunch Hunchbacked Ibis Incurvate Incurvation Incurve Incurvity Kam Leviathan Logwood Pelican Pravity Psaltery Repandous Rhinoceros-bird Rickets Right Rod Rostrum Scrabble Shank Sinuous Straight Straighten Straightly Strait Stuff Thwart Undeviating Windy
Albatros Ammonite Amyztli Antigugler Arcuation Baker-legged Bandy-legged Bandying Bend Bended Bennet Bent Bevel Bill Bimbow Bistoury Bossive Bow-bent Bow-legged Brace Bunch Camous Clamp Club-footed Coralliform Corbe Courb Cow-itch Cowhage Crane Crook Crook-back Crook-kneed Crooked Crooken Crosier Crotch Crotchet Crow Crump Curvature Curve Curving Curvity Cycloidal Deformity Deprave Direct Distortion Eagle Encroach Falcation Falchion Gambrel Gibbous Hawk Hawked Hook Housed Hump Humpback Humpbacked Hunch Hunchbacked Ibis Incurvate Incurvation Incurve Incurvity Kam Leviathan Logwood Pelican Pravity Psaltery Repandous Rhinoceros-bird Rickets Right Rod Rostrum Scrabble Shank Sinuous Straight Straighten Straightly Strait Stuff Thwart Undeviating Windy
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