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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Rook

Rook (rook)
n.(r***oocr]k)
Rook
  1. Mist; fog. See Roke.
    [Obs.]

Rook

Rook (rook)
v. i.
Rook
  1. To squat; to ruck.
    [Obs.] Shak.

Rook

Rook (rook)
n.
Rook
fr. Per. *** Ar. rokh, or rukh, the rook or castle at chess, also the bird roc (in this sense perhaps a different word)] cf. Hind. rath a war chariot, the castle at chess, Skr. ratha a car, a war car. Cf. Roll
  1. One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

Rook

Rook (rook)
n.
Rook
  1. A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.

    The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend. Pennant.

  2. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
    Wycherley.

Rook

Rook (rook)
v. t. *** i.
Rook
  1. To cheat] to defraud by cheating.
    "A band of rooking officials." Milton.












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