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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.

To brook; to endure. [Obs.] Shak.

Crookedly. [R.] Udall.

maller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

See Water mint.

A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

A small brook.

A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

The bank of a brook.

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

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.]

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