crooked mouth

The name given to a species of Flounder. ( Buchan.) "Pleuronectes tuberculatus, Crooked mouth."-Arbuthnot: Peter head, p. 18. crook'-ěd-lỹ, *crokedly, adv . [Eng. crooked; -ly .] 1. Lit .: In a crooked, bent, or curved manner or fashion. "She craumpy heth her lymes crokedly." Chaucer: Queen Anlyda , 174. *2. Fig .: Perversely, untowardly. "If we walk perversely with God, he will walk crookedly towards us." -Taylor: Rule of Living Holy. crook'-ěd-ne , * crok-ed-ne e, s . crooked; -ne .] I. Literally : [English 1. The quality of being crooked, bent, or curved; curvature, curvity, inflection. the absence of straightne , in bodies capable thereof, is crookedne ."- Hooker. 2. A physical deformity. *II. Fig .: Perversene , untowardne . "But the wickedne e of his will and crokedne e or forwardne e wherewith hee sleath vnrighteously."-Tyndall: Works, p. 301. *crook'-el, v . i. [A frequent. from croo , v. (q. v.)] To coo as a dove. ( Ash . ) †crook'-en, v. t. [Eng. crook ; -en.] 1. Lit .: To make crooked, curved, twisted, or bent. 2. Fig .: To make perverse or untoward; to pervert, to lead astray.