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A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

A crooked back; a humped back. Tatler.

To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back. Dryden.

To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." [Obs.] Fuller.

To bar in; to secure. [Obs.] To imbar their crooked titles. Shak.

Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.

To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

s; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal. By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met this crown. Shak.

The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect. J. Philips.

To mark or imprint with lines. A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow. Marlowe.

Crooked; awry. [Obs.] "This is clean kam." Shak.

Crooked; arched; bent. [Written also kimbow.] Dryden.

Knotty; gnarled. The knarred and crooked cedar knees. Longfellow.

-- To make away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. Burton.

A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore.

Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree. Maunder.

on produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter. W. Crookes.

; a pastoral letter. Pastoral staff (Eccl.), a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See Crook, and Crosier. -- Pastoral Theology, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors.…