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ies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat. How couldst thou find this dark, sequestered nook Milton.

Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] That nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

ow living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n.

The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.

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

Without nooks and corners; guileless. [Obs.] "Unnooked simplicity." Marston.

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.

cipally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.

A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook. This thing was not done in a corner. Acts xxvi. 26.

A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore. Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks. Holland.

Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. Wordsworth. Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. Bacon.

s deep. Shadowing squadrons deep. Milton. Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook. Shak.

To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. To read enregistered in every nook His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser.

A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.

Any similar wind, as the chinook, in other parts of the world.

A nook; a corner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A reëntrant angle; a nook or corner. Ins and outs, nooks and corners; twists and turns. All the ins and outs of this neighborhood. D. Jerrold.

A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.