Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

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Corbe :: Corbe (a.) Crooked.
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Crookack :: Crookack (a.) Hunched.
Serpent :: Serpent (v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
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.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
Bunch-backed :: Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Right :: Right (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line..
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..
Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
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..
Cops :: Cops (n.) The connecting crook of a harrow.
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
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.
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