Definition of crook

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

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Incurvate :: Incurvate (a.) Curved; bent; crooked.
Sheephook :: Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook..
Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl..
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..
Cam :: Cam (a.) Crooked.
Distortion :: Distortion (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion..
Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.
Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Hump :: Hump (n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc..
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..
Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..
Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Twistical :: Twistical (a.) Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..
Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
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