Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

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Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
Curvicaudate :: Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..
Curve :: Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface..
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..
Direct :: Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means..
Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
Hump :: Hump (n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back..
Curvirostral :: Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill..
Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
Distortion :: Distortion (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion..
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
Crooking :: Crooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croo.
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Golf :: Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Cammock :: Cammock (n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock..
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