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To bend or curve [Obs.] Crooked and curbed lines. Holland.

The act of bending or crooking.

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

Having a curved or crooked tail.

Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.

The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. Holder.

One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough- haired and the smooth-haired.

upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

yed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means. What is direct to, what slides by, the question. Locke.

Dishonor. [Obs.] To the disglory of God's name. Northbrooke.

The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.

a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.

. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.

ded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion. H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv.

o p,k,v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. f, L. lupus, Gr. fox, vixen ; fragile, break ; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, sq. root 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.

A trifing matter; an object of contempt. [Obs.] England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing. Old Proverb. To have one's fling, to enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. J. H. Newman. "When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure." D. Jerrol…

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.