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crook-back
crook-back (ˈkrʊkbæk) [See crook a.] † 1. A crooked back. Obs.1508 [see crook a.]. 1709 Swift Merlin's Proph., Bosse, is an old english word for hump-shoulder, or crook-back. 1710 Palmer Proverbs 98 The deformity of a squint eye, red hair, or a crook-back. 2. One who has a crooked back; a hunchback.... Oxford English Dictionary
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crook-back
crook-backn, adj (arch 古) hunch-back(ed) 驼背(的). 牛津英汉双解词典
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crouchback
† ˈcrouchback, n. and a. Obs. (exc. Hist.) Also 6 crutch-back, crudge bak, 7 crouched-. [f. stem of crouch v., associated perhaps with F. croche crook: cf. crook-back, which is, at least in sense and use, a doublet of this.] 1. A crooked or hunched back. 2. One who has a crooked back, a hunchback. b... Oxford English Dictionary
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crook-backed
crook-backed, a. (ˈkrʊkbækt) [f. prec. + -ed.] Having a crooked back: hunchbacked.1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes C ij a, The said ypocras was of littel stature, grete heded, croke backed. 1513 More in Grafton Chron. II. 758 Richard the thirde sonne..was..crooke backed, his left shoulder much highe... Oxford English Dictionary
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crooked
crooked, a. (ˈkrʊkɪd) Forms: 3–6 croked, 4–6 -id, -yd, (4 kr-), 5 cruked, (crowkyt), 6 Sc. crukit, 7 (Shaks.) crook'd, 4– crooked. [Partly pa. pple. of crook v., partly f. crook n. + -ed, as in hunched, etc.: the formation from the n. may even have been the earlier.] 1. a. Bent from the straight for... Oxford English Dictionary
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crook
▪ I. crook, n. and a. (krʊk) Forms: 3–4 croc, 3–6 croke, 4–5 Sc. and north. cruk, 4–6 crok, kroke, 5–6 cruke, 5–8 crooke, 6–9 Sc. cruik, 4– crook. [ME. crōk, crōc, app. a. ON. krókr (Sw. krok, Da. krog) crook, hook, barb, trident; unknown elsewhere in Teutonic, but app. belonging to the same ablaut ... Oxford English Dictionary
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crump
▪ I. † crump, a.1 and n.1 Obs. Also 7 cromp. [OE. crump = OHG. chrumph, MHG. krumpf, a by-form, prob. intensive, of OE. crumb, OHG. chrumb (see crumb a.), which has largely supplanted the simpler form. There is however a long gap in the history during the ME. period, and it is possible that the 16th... Oxford English Dictionary
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unproportioned
unproˈportioned, ppl. a. (un-1 8, 5 b.)c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxxv. vii, What unproportion'd odds To thee, these idolls gold and silver beare? 1595 Daniel Civ. Wars ii. xix, Huge vnproportion'd mountaines. 1602 Shakes. Ham. i. iii. 60 Giue thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any vnproportion'd thought ... Oxford English Dictionary
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conditioned
conditioned, ppl. a. (kənˈdɪʃənd) [f. condition n. and v.: prob. originally after med.L. conditiōnātus or OF. condicionné.] I. From the n. 1. a. Of persons: Having a (specified) disposition or temperament; -disposed, -tempered, -natured.a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 16 Daughtres..welle manered and c... Oxford English Dictionary
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