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

An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed. H. Brooke.

Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.

To bend; to curve; to make crooked.

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

; 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.

Having no essence or being. H. Brooke. The womb of inessential Naught. Shelley.

ant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least can not sink. H. Brooke.

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.

State of being within; interiority. [R.] H. Brooke.

Malignant; virulent; spiteful. H. Brooke.

acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle. Milton. Honey in woods, juleps in brooks. H. Vaughan.

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

even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.

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

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

A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

and delicate, though simple, thought. Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.