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A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. Phaer.

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.

Either 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…

A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.

The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

A curve of the third degree. Circular cubic. See under Circular.

f, and that product again by the same number. See Cube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

er; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.

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

To shape (the brim) into a curve.

A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

Bowed; bent; curved.

Bent in a regular form; curved.

Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.

The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper. The elegant curvature of their fronds. Darwin.

Having a curved or crooked tail.

Having curved teeth.