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Look up: Crook

  1. Crook
    Crook is Australian and New Zealand slang for feeling ill; unpleasant; bad; of poor quality.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Crook
    Crook is Australian and New Zealand slang for feeling ill; unpleasant; bad; of poor quality.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. Crook
    A crook is a small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  4. crook
    [n] - a long staff with one end being hook shaped 2. [v] - bend or cause to bend
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. crook
    a defect in logs,poles or piling,consisting of an abrupt curvature Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Crook
    Crook (krok) noun [ Middle English crok ; akin to Icelandic krokr hook, bend, SW. krok , Danish krog , OD. krooke ; or confer Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Confer Crosier , Cro...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/190

  7. Crook
    Crook transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Crooked (kr??kt); present participle & verbal noun Crooking .] [ Middle English croken ; confer Swedish kr...ka , Danish <...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/190

  8. Crook
    Crook intransitive verb To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. ' The port . . . crooketh like a bow.' Phaer. « Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. Camden. »
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/191

  9. crook
    shepherd`s crook noun a long staff with one end being hook shaped
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. crook
    verb bend or cause to bend; `He crooked his index finger`; `the road curved sharply`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. Crook
    • (n.) A bishop`s staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff. • (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. • (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. • (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. • (n.) A small tube, us...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. crook
    in brass musical instruments, detachable piece of metal tubing inserted between the mouthpiece and the main tubing or in the middle of the tubing to ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/161

  13. crook
    a thief, criminal, swindler
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini

  14. Crook
    A lumber defect where there is an edgewise warp effecting the straightness of the board
    Found on http://www.kooturlumber.com/glossary.sht

  15. Crook
    (music) A `crook`, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic series which the instrument can sound, an...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crook



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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