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

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

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.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

To make crooked. [Obs.]

bserved only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

ery high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.

r 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 smoot…

Crookedly. [R.] Udall.

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

An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.

The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness. Coxe.

To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. A crooked pin . . . bailed with a vile earthworm. W. Irving.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having crooked legs.