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A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.

One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached. J. Knowles.

A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. "I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks." Dryden.

To look forward. [Obs.] Surrey.

The book used by a prompter of a theater.

imp. of Quake. [Obs.] Spenser.

A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species. The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend. Pennant.

The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. Tennyson.

Misty; gloomy. [Obs.] Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.

A book used in schools for learning lessons.

A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden.

To pack, as staves, in a shook.

A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. Locke.

The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. [Prov. Eng.]

A book of sketches or for sketches.

To lurk; to lie in ambush. [Obs.]

A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also spuke.] Ld. Lytton.

To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.