Word Meanings - HAWKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Curved like a hawk's bill; crooked.
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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 - CURVIROSTRES
A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches. - CROOKEDLY
In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner. - CURVICAUDATE
Having a curved or crooked tail. - CURVE
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface. - CURVISERIAL
Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem. - CURVATURE
The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under - CURVATE; CURVATED
Bent in a regular form; curved. - CURVILINEARITY
The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines. - CURVATIVE
Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow. - CURVIDENTATE
Having curved teeth. - CURVAL; CURVANT
Bowed; bent; curved. - CURVIROSTRAL
Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill. - CROOKEDNESS
The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness. - CURVILINEAD
An instrument for drawing curved lines. - 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 - CURVINERVED
Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined. - TRICURVATE
Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule). - RECURVE
To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down. - RECURVATE
Recurved. - SCURVILY
In a scurvy manner. - RECURVITY
Recurvation. - SCURVY
1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy - INCURVATION
1. The act of bending, or curving. 2. The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham. 3. The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. "The incurvations of the knee." Bp. Hall. - RECURVIROSTER
A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.