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Having the form of a hookl curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Curved inwards; hooked.

Angular; having corners; hooked. [R.] Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.

Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.

One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. "A billman of the guard." Savile.

A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison.

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. Fairholt.

Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

One of a family (Falconidæ) of raptorial birds, characterized by a short, hooked beak, strong claws, and powerful flight.