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The act of bending or crooking.

• Crookedly
  In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
• Crookedness
  The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
• 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.
• CROOKESSPACE
  The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.
• CROOKESTUBE
  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.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• Crookback
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

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