Definition of rook

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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..

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Brookside :: Brookside (n.) The bank of a brook.
Rill :: Rill (n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Bandy-legged :: Bandy-legged (a.) Having crooked legs.
Run :: Run (n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
Penguinery :: Penguinery (n.) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins..
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
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..
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Runlet :: Runlet (n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.
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..
Stream :: Stream (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano..
Brooked :: Brooked (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Crump :: Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.
Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Camoys :: Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.
Brook :: Brook (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint..
Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
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