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Hook-nosed :: Hook-nosed (a.) Having a hooked or aquiline nose.

Crochet :: Crochet (n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively..

Uncinate :: Uncinate (a.) Hooked; bent at the tip in the form of a hook; as, an uncinate process..

Cutgrass :: Cutgrass () A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia..

Griff :: Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

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

Angulous :: Angulous (a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.

Hamular :: Hamular (a.) Hooked; hooklike; hamate; as, the hamular process of the sphenoid bone..

Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..

Uncous :: Uncous (a.) Hooklike; hooked.

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

Ravehook :: Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum..

Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached..

Subadvocate :: Subaduncate (a.) Somewhat hooked or curved.

Play :: Play (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it..

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth..

Adunque :: Adunque (a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill..

Hound''s-tongue :: Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue..

Pennant :: Pennant (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

Crampoons :: Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc..

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