Definition of hook

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Hook (n.) A field sown two years in succession.

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Tapeworm :: Tapeworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adh
Draught :: Draught (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks..
Hook-nosed :: Hook-nosed (a.) Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
Crochet :: Crochet (v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl..
Eyehole :: Eyehole (n.) A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet..
Hooked :: Hooked (imp. & p. p.) of Hoo.
Hook :: Hook (n.) A field sown two years in succession.
Teasel :: Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth..
Unhooked :: Unhooked (a.) Without nooks and corners; guileless.
Hink :: Hink (n.) A reaping hook.
Agraffe :: Agraffe (n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing..
Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
Leaper :: Leaper (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
Hitch :: Hitch (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement..
Dibranchiata :: Dibranchiata (n. pl.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda..
Hook-billed :: Hook-billed (a.) Having a strongly curved bill.
Hookedness :: Hookedness (n.) The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
Adhamant :: Adhamant (a.) Clinging, as by hooks..
Loop :: Loop (n.) A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight..
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