crook (kruk)

[ There is but little labour of the muscles required, only enough for bowing or crooking the tail. Derham , Physico-Theology, v. 11, note. 21. To curl (hair). Ayenbite of Inwit , p. 176. -3. To turn; pervert; misapply. Whatsoever affairs pa such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. Bacon, Wisdom for a Man's Self. 41. To thwart. To crook the elbow, to drink; become drunk. [Slang.] - To crook the mouth, to distort For, though my justice were as white as truth, My way was crooked to it; that condemns me. Fletcher, Val ent in i an, v. 3. Hence-3. Made or sold in secret, without the regulations or inspection required by law: as, crooked whisky. [Colloq.] And another house testified that it manufactured two hundred and twenty-five you sand gallons a month, and that half its entire annual product was crooked. N. A. Rev. , СХХІІІ. 301. =Syn. 1. Bowed, awry, askew, deformed, distorted.-2. Deceitful, tricky, dishonorable, knavish. See irregular. crookedly (krük'ed-li), adv. In a crooked, bent, or perverse manner.