Word Meanings - KNEE-CROOKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Obsequious; fawning; cringing. "Knee-crooking knave." Shak.

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• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• 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
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• CRINGER
  One who cringes.
• CROOKEDNESS
  The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
• CRINGE
  To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad
• FAWNER
  One who fawns; a sycophant.
• KNAVE
  AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. kna, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak. 2. Any
• CRINGELING
  One who cringes meanly; a fawner.
• KNAVESHIP
  A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• SACRING
  a. & n. from Sacre. Sacring bell. See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.
• ACROOK
  Crookedly. Udall.
• SCRINGE
  To cringe.