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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.

Crookedly. [R.] Udall.

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.

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.

A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.

te path; an obscure way; indirect means. God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak.

Crooked. [Obs.]

A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.