Definition of crook

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Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

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Incurvate :: Incurvate (v. t.) To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
Scrabble :: Scrabble (v. t.) To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl..
Inflex :: Inflex (v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
Crook :: Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
Distortion :: Distortion (n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion..
Akimbo :: Akimbo (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
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..
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..
Crook :: Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Obuncous :: Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Wrybill :: Wrybill (n.) See Crookbill.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar..
Incurvate :: Incurvate (a.) Curved; bent; crooked.
Guaiacum :: Guaiacum (n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America..
Bent :: Bent (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow..
Curve :: Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface..
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..
Straightly :: Straightly (adv.) In a right line; not crookedly.
Bowl-legged :: Bowl-legged (a.) Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward..
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