CPage 752
- English Word Crook Definition A pothook.
- English Word Crook Definition An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
- English Word Crook Definition A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- English Word Crook Definition A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
- English Word Crook Definition To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
- English Word Crook Definition To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- English Word Crook Definition To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
- English Word Crookack Definition Hunched.
- English Word Crookback Definition A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
- English Word Crookbill Definition A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
- English Word Crooked Definition of Crook
- English Word Crooked Definition Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
- English Word Crooked Definition Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
- English Word Crooked Definition False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
- English Word Crookedly Definition In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
- English Word Crookedness Definition The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
- English Word Crooken Definition To make crooked.
- English Word Crookes tube Definition 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.
- English Word Crooking Definition of Crook
- English Word Croon Definition To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.