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Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..

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

Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..

Akimbo :: Akimbo (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

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

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..

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

Crooking :: Crooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croo.

Hump :: Hump (n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back..

Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..

Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..

Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.

Crookack :: Crookack (a.) Hunched.

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..

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

Shabble :: Shabble (n.) A kind of crooked sword or hanger.

Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..

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..

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar..

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