Definition of rook

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Rook (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper..

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Crooked :: Crooked (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings..
Spadefoot :: Spadefoot (n.) Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S. Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad..
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Twisted :: Twisted (a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted..
Water Course :: Water course () A stream of water; a river or brook.
Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl..
Naiad :: Naiad (n.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain..
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..
Runlet :: Runlet (n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
Rill :: Rill (n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.
Trimorphism :: Trimorphism (n.) The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism..
Bandy-legged :: Bandy-legged (a.) Having crooked legs.
Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..
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..
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..
Direct :: Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken..
Brook Mint :: Brook mint () See Water mint.
Stomach :: Stomach (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.
Beccabunga :: Beccabunga (n.) See Brooklime.
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