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Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

Straight :: Straight (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber..

Curvicaudate :: Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.

Cammock :: Cammock (n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock..

Penguinery :: Penguinery (n.) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins..

Rook :: Rook (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper..

Brook :: Brook (v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

Brook :: Brook (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint..

Golf :: Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

Crookes Tube :: Crookes tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it..

Rook :: Rook (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species..

Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves..

Liver :: Liver (n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn..

Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..

Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..

Knee-crooking :: Knee-crooking (a.) Obsequious; fawning; cringing.

Pinfish :: Pinfish (n.) The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

Killifish :: Killifish (n.) Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow..

Rookery :: Rookery (n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc..

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