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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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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..

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.

Castle :: Castle (n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook..

Rooky :: Rooky (a.) Misty; gloomy.

Abrook :: Abrook (v. t.) To brook; to endure.

Crookback :: Crookback (n.) A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

Brun :: Brun (n.) Same as Brun, a brook..

Beck :: Beck (n.) A small brook.

Rook :: Rook (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

Run :: Run (n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.

Rivulet :: Rivulet (n.) A small stream or brook; a streamlet.

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

Strook :: Strook () imp. of Strike.

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.

Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

F :: F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.;

Cascade :: Cascade (n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract..

Water Pimpernel :: Water pimpernel () A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

Bend :: Bend (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road..