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Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support..

Corbe :: Corbe (a.) Crooked.

Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.

Turnspit :: Turnspit (n.) A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.

Crooked :: Crooked (imp. & p. p.) of Croo.

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..

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

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

Straightly :: Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.

Right :: Right (a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.

Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

Incurve :: Incurve (v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

Bent :: Bent (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever..

Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

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..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

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

Crookack :: Crookack (a.) Hunched.

Bandy :: Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg..

Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.

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