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ry high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.

of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is smooth…

A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." Shak.

imp. of Strike. Dryden.

An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

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.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.

In a slanting direction over; athwart. There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak.

specially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely. Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him straight. Spenser.

A general receptacle or receiver. [Obs.] It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its b…

its; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton.

To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. A crooked pin . . . bailed with a vile earthworm. W. Irving.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having crooked legs.

See Brooklime.

A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.