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

Crook :: Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key..

Incurve :: Incurve (v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

Zigzaggery :: Zigzaggery (n.) The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.

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..

Distortion :: Distortion (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion..

Crookback :: Crookback (n.) A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

Crookes Tube :: Crookes tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it..

Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.

Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..

Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.

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

Bent :: Bent (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow..

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..

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

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

Bandy :: Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg..

Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.

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

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