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Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

Knee-crooking :: Knee-crooking (a.) Obsequious; fawning; cringing.

Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.

Hawked :: Hawked (a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.

Crookedness :: Crookedness (n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness..

Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

Bunch-backed :: Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A pothook.

Direct :: Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken..

Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee..

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

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

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..

Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees..

Corbe :: Corbe (a.) Crooked.

Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

Camoys :: Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.

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