Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

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Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
Curve :: Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..
Golf :: Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Curve :: Curve (a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it..
Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..
Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..
Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Cowhage :: Cowhage (n.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge..
Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
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..
Gy-rose :: Gy-rose (a.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro..
Incurvate :: Incurvate (a.) Curved; bent; crooked.
Right :: Right (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line..
Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..
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