Definition of crook

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

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Bandy :: Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg..
Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Crookedness :: Crookedness (n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..
Akimbo :: Akimbo (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
Bunch-backed :: Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Hump :: Hump (n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back..
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.
Corbe :: Corbe (a.) Crooked.
Crookbill :: Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right..
Bowleg :: Bowleg (n.) A crooked leg.
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..
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Crookack :: Crookack (a.) Hunched.
Crooken :: Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked.
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