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Hooked :: Hooked (imp. & p. p.) of Hoo.

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..

Billman :: Billman (n.) One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax..

Hooked :: Hooked (a.) Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird..

Claw :: Claw (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird..

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

Hook-nosed :: Hook-nosed (a.) Having a hooked or aquiline nose.

Hamous :: Hamous () Having the end hooked or curved.

Aduncity :: Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.

Falcated :: Falcated (a.) Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent-formed..

Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.

Leaper :: Leaper (n.) A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..

Hooked :: Hooked (a.) Provided with a hook or hooks.

Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..

Hamate :: Hamate (a.) Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Unfalcated :: Unfalcated (a.) Not falcated, or hooked..

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..

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