Word Meanings - CROOKBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

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• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• 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.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• 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
• HUNCHBACK
  A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
• DEFORMITY
  deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
• HUNCHBACKED
  Having a humped back.
• CROOKEDNESS
  The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
• DEFORM
  1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above
• CROOKEN
  To make crooked.
• DEFORMED
  Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.
• 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.