Crook

krōōk, n. a bend, anything bent: a curved tube used to lower the pitch of a cornet, .: the bending of the body in reverence: a staff bent at the end, as a shepherd's or bishop's: an artifice or trick: ( Spens. ) gibbet.— v.t. to bend or form into a hook: to turn from the straight line or from what is right.— v.i. to bend or be bent.— n. Crook′back ( Shak. ), a hunchback.— adj. Crook′backed ; Crook′ed , bent like a crook: not straight: deviating from rectitude, perverse.— adv. Crook′edly .— n. Crook′edne .— adjs. Crook′-kneed ; Crook′-shoul′dered .— A crook in the lot , any trial in one's experience. [Prob. Scand.; cf. Ice. krókr , Dan. krog .]