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(hik), v. [¢ ME. hoken; from the noun. ] I, trans. 1. To fasten with a hook or hooks; eatch or seize with or as if with a hook: as, to hook a trout. The harlot king Is quite beyond mine arm, but she I can hook to me. Shak., W. T., ii. 3. At last I hook’d my ankle in a vine. Tennyson, Prince , iv. 2. To attack with the horns; catch on the horns: as, to be hooked by a cow.—8. To catch by artifice; entrap; insnare. Hook him, my poor dear, hook him at any sacrifice. W. Collins, Armadale. 4. To steal by grasping; catch up and make off with. [Collog. or slang. ] Is not this braver than sneak all night in danger, Picking of locks, or hooking cloths at windows? T. Tomkis (?), Albumazar, iii. 3. I hooked the apples, leaped the brook, and scared the musquash and the trout. Thoreau, Walden, p. 219. 5, To attach by means of a hook, literally or figuratively. 220 hook The larhoard galley, crippled but not daunted, swung round acro his stern, and hooked herself yenomously on to him, Kingsley, Westward Ho, xx. II, in trans. 1. To bend; be in or take the form of a hook, Her bill hooks and bends downwards, Sir_T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p, 383. 2. To become attached by means of a hook, or something resembling a hook: as, a chain that hooks on to the watch. Fal. Go, with her, with her; {to Bardolph] hook on, hook on. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 3. To have a habit of attacking with the horns: said of a cow or other horned animal.—4, To turn away; depart; decamp: now (transitively) with an indefinite it, as a slang phrase. Tlokit out of havyn all the hepe somyn, Hade bir at hor bake. Destruction of Troy (E. B. T. 8.), 1. 4621. [That is, ‘All the heap (fleet) together hooked out of haven, had the wind at their back.’} Every school-boy knows that the lion has a claw at the end of his tail, with which he lashes himself into fury. When the experienced hunter sees him doing that, he, so to speak, hooks it. H. Kingsley, Ra- [venshoe, Lx. hooka, hookah (bh6’ka), 2. = [E. spelling of Hind, and Pers. huqgqa, a pipe for smoking, Pers. also a casket,