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Webster 1913 Edition

Crook

Crook

(kr??k)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crooked
(kr??kt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Crooking
.]
[OE.
croken
; cf. Sw.
kr[GREEK]ka
, Dan.
kr[GREEK]ge
. See Crook,
Noun.
]
1.
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Crook
the pregnant hinges of the knee.
Shakespeare
2.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
[Archaic]
There is no one thing that
crooks
youth more than such unlawfull games.
Ascham.
What soever affairs pass such a man’s hands, he
crooketh
them to his own ends.
Bacon.

Crook

,
Verb.
I.
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
“ The port . . . crooketh like a bow.”
Phaer.
Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long,
crooking
upwards.
Camden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crook

CROOK

,
Noun.
[G., the back, or ridge of an animal. L., a wrinkle, a circle; rough, hoarse. The radical sense of crook is to strain or draw; hence, to bend.]
1.
Any bend, turn or curve; or a bent or curving instrument. We speak of a crook in a stick of timber, or in a river; and any hook is a crook.
2.
A shepherd staff, curving at the end; a pastoral staff. When used by a bishop or abbot, it is called a crosier.
He left his crook, he left his flocks.
3.
A gibbet.
4.
An artifice; a trick.

CROOK

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To bend; to turn from a straight line; to make a curve or hook.
2.
To turn from rectitude; to pervert.
3.
To thwart. [Little used.]

CROOK

,
Verb.
I.
To bend or be bent; to be turned from a right line; to curve; to wind.

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