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of Erasmus's Praise of Folly, p. 76. ( Davies.) rooker2 (rük'er), n. [ Its gray front stood out well from the background of a rookery , whose cawing tenants were now on the wing. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xi. 2. The rooks that breed in a rookery, collectively. The many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. Tennyson , Locksley Hall. 3. A place where birds or other animals resort in great numbers to breed. (a) The resort of various sea-birds, as auks, murres, guillemots, puffins, pet rels, penguins, and cormorants, generally a rocky seacoast or island. (b) The breeding-grounds of the fur-seal and other pinnipeds. Millions of live seals to be seen hauled up on the rook eries [in the Pribylof Islands].