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Having a hooked or aquiline nose. Shak.

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

A universal joint. See under Universal.

Having the form of a hookl curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

One who, or that which, hooks.

See Hockey.

A little hook.

Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer. "He teaches boys the h…

Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.

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

The oryx or gemsbok. [Written also kookaam.]

A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]

See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.

See Moonfish (b).

One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.