Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..

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Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
Turnspit :: Turnspit (n.) A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.
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..
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Bent :: Bent (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow..
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Direct :: Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken..
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
Bandy :: Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg..
Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
Bunch-backed :: Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Curve :: Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface..
Curvation :: Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.
Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.
Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
Crook :: Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Crump :: Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.
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