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Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..

Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..

Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.

Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees..

Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

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

Crookes Tube :: Crookes tube () 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..

Antiguggler :: Antiguggler (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise..

Direct :: Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means..

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..

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

Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.

Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..

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.

Serpent :: Serpent (v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.

Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..

Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.

Sheephook :: Sheephook (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook..

Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.

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