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Crook [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any bend, turn or curve; or a bent or curving instrument. We speak of a crook in a stick of timber, or in a river; and any hook is a crook

2. A shepherd staff, curving at the end; a pastoral staff. When used by a bishop or abbot, it is called a crosier.

3. He left his crook he left his flocks.

4. A gibbet.

5. An artifice; a trick.

Crook [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bend or be bent; to be turned from a right line; to curve; to wind.

Crook [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To bend; to turn from a straight line; to make a curve or hook.

2. To turn from rectitude; to pervert.

3. To thwart. [Little used.]

Crook [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

2. Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

3. The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

4. A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

5. A pothook.

6. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

7. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

8. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

9. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

10. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Crook [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Crook-back [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A crooked back; one who has a crooked back or round shoulders.

Crook-backed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a round back, or shoulders.

Crook-kneed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having crooked knees.

Crook-shouldered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having bent shoulders.

Crookack [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hunched.

Crookback [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Crookbill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

Crooked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. or adjective

2. Bent; curved; curving; winding.

3. Winding in moral conduct; devious; froward; perverse; going out of the path of rectitude; given to obliquity or wandering from duty.

4. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deuteronomy 32:5 .

Crooked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.

2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Crooked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Crookedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In a winding manner.

2. Untowardly; not compliantly.

Crookedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

Crookedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A winding, bending or turning; curvity; curvature; inflection.

2. Perverseness; untowardness; deviation from rectitude; iniquity; obliquity of conduct.

3. Deformity of a gibbous body.

Crookedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

Crooken [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make crooked. [Not in use.]

Crooken [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make crooked.

Crookes tube Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Crooking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bending; winding.

Crooking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Leviticus 21:20

Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

2 Samuel 22:27

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

Job 26:13

By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

Psalms 18:26

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

Psalms 125:5

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

Proverbs 2:15

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

Proverbs 8:8

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.

Proverbs 21:8

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

Lamentations 3:9

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Philippians 2:15

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

Wisdom of Solomon 13:13

And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, hath carved it diligently, when he had nothing else to do, and formed it by the skill of his understanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man;