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A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

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

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

To make crooked. [Obs.]

erved only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

y 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…

To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly. Here an old grandmother was crooning over a sick child, and rocking it to and fro. Dickens.

A caltrop. [Written also crowfoot.]

A caltrop. [Written also crow's-foot.]

The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age." W. B. Dawkins.

scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.…

A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup. Shak.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake- robin.

The root of a handsome erect herb (Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.