Definition of rook

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Rook (v. i.) To squat; to ruck.

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Bend :: Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
Rook :: Rook (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Crook :: Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc..
Cam :: Cam (a.) Crooked.
Hawked :: Hawked (a.) Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
Brook :: Brook (v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
F :: F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma /, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phoenician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.;
Rooked :: Rooked (imp. & p. p.) of Roo.
Killifish :: Killifish (n.) Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow..
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Curvicaudate :: Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.
Crooken :: Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked.
River :: River (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook..
Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Crook :: Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep..
Rutile :: Rutile (n.) A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite..
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