Definition of rook

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

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Run :: Run (n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
Rookeries :: Rookeries (pl. ) of Rooker.
Brooklime :: Brooklime (n.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana..
Rutile :: Rutile (n.) A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite..
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..
Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Hump :: Hump (n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back..
Caw :: Caw (n.) The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven..
Rook :: Rook (n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc..
Brun :: Brun (n.) Same as Brun, a brook..
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Cowhage :: Cowhage (n.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge..
Antiguggler :: Antiguggler (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise..
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..
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
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