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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.

 

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