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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Dachshund :: Dachshund (n.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired..
Futtock :: Futtock (n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..
Rooky :: Rooky (a.) Misty; gloomy.
Castle :: Castle (n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook..
Curve :: Curve (a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it..
Trimorphism :: Trimorphism (n.) The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism..
Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Liver :: Liver (n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn..
Brun :: Brun (n.) Same as Brun, a brook..
River :: River (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook..
Strook :: Strook () imp. of Strike.
Pinfish :: Pinfish (n.) The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).
Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar..
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves..
Zigzaggery :: Zigzaggery (n.) The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.
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