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Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.

See Cloak. [Obs.]

, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

A cockney. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The cocoanut.

A simpleton; a gull; a dupe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Cuckold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons. There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament. palfrey.

A female cook. [R.]

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

See Cooky.

A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.

A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.

A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.] Holinshed.

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.]

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

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