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Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..

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..

Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..

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.

Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..

Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.

Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Straightly :: Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.

Right :: Right (a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.

Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..

Crump :: Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.

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

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

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..

Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

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..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A pothook.

Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..

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