Part 2601

<hw>Crook</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.</def> " The port . . . <i>crooketh</i> like a bow."

<i>Phaer.</i>

<blockquote>Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, <b>crooking</b> upwards. <i>Camden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Crookback</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crook"back`</hw> <tt>(kr??k"b?k)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.</def>

<h1>Crookack</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crook"ack`</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Hunched.</def>

<i>Shak. `</i>

<h1>Crookbill</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crook"bill`</hw> <tt>( -b?l`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l)</fld> <def>A New Zealand plover (<spn>Anarhynchus frontalis</spn>), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.</def>

<h1>Crooked</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crook"ed</hw> <tt>(kr??k"?d)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.</def> "<i>Crooked</i> paths."

<i>Locke.</i>

<blockquote>he is deformed, <b>crooked</b>, old, and sere. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.</def>

<blockquote>They are a perverse and <b>crooked</b> generation. <i>Deut. xxxii. 5.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>False; dishonest; fraudulent; <as>as, <ex>crooked</ex> dealings</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Crooked whisky</col>, <cd>whisky on wich the paiment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. <mark>[Slang, U.S.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Barlett.</i>

<h1>Crookedly</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crook"ed*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.</def>

<h1>Crookedness</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crook"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.</def>

<h1>Crooken</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crook"en</hw> <tt>(kr??k"'n)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make crooked.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Crookes tube</h1> <Xpage=347>

<hw>Crookes" tube`</hw> <tt>(kr??ks" t?b`)</tt>. <fld>(Phys.)</fld> <def>A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. <i>Crookes</i> who introduced it.</def>

<h1>Croon</h1> <Xpage=347>