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

Rook, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rooked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rooking.] To

cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking officials." Milton.

Rook"er*y (?), n.; pl. Rookeries (&?;). 1. The breeding place of a

colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. Tennyson.

2. A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins,

etc.

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