Word Meanings - BOWLEG - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.
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- CROOKBILL
A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right. - CROOKES TUBE
A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it. - CROOKBACK
A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback. - CROOKNECK
Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The - CROOKEDLY
In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner. - CROOK
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. (more - TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - CROOKEDNESS
The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness. - CROOKEN
To make crooked. - CROOKED
1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak. 2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They - CROOKES SPACE
The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer. - ACROOK
Crookedly. Udall. - KNEE-CROOKING
Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." Shak. - THROW-CROOK
An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.