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case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.

, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft.

Without a truce; unforbearing. Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest. H. Brooke.

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.

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.

Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be…

Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest. [Slang, U. S.] Bartlett.

for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.

red me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.

on. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. Milton.

A probable chemical element discovered by Sir William Crookes in 1898. Its nitrate is obtained byy practical decomposition and crystallization of yttrium nitrate. At. wt., about 117.

A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.

e a course of life; to conduct one's self. We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. Jer. Taylor.

A stream of water; a river or brook. Isa. xliv. 4.

A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

d relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson.

de from malted barley. Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. -- Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. -- Whisky Jack (Zoöl.), the Canada jay (Perisoreus Canadensis). It is noted for its fearless and familiar habits when it frequents the camps of lumbermen in the winter season. Its color is dull g…

To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. And where the valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. Thomson. He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which . . . winded through the thickets of wild boxwoo…

ssage by flying; flight; as, to take wing. Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.

r grove; -- frequently used in the plural. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.