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gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. His path is one that eminently craves weary walking. Edmund Gurney.

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. Bacon.

aracterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak.

to interbreed; -- said of different stoocks or races; to mix the breed of. To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans. Macualay.

A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.

Intersection, as of two paths or roads.

to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.

A condition in which, from insufficient aCyanopathy.

Of disagreeable things and antipathies. In our dear peril. Shak. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day. Shak.

Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

he common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.

Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.

To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. [R.] Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son. Shak.

A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. [R.] Then my digression is so vile, so base, That it will live engraven in my face. Shak.

Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy. Sir W. Temple.

A turning; a byway; a bypath. [Obs.] Hales.

Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.