CROODLE, kr[=oo]d'l, _v.i._ to cower down, or cling close to anything.
[Prob. related to _Cuddle_.]
CROODLE, kr[=oo]d'l, _v.i._ (_Scot._), to coo like a dove, to coax.
CROOK, kr[=oo]k, _n._ a bend, anything bent: a curved tube used to lower
the pitch of a cornet, &c.: the bending of the body in reverence: a staff
bent at the end, as a shepherd's or bishop's: an artifice or trick:
(_Spens._) gibbet.--_v.t._ to bend or form into a hook: to turn from the
straight line or from what is right.--_v.i._ to bend or be bent.--_n._
CROOK'BACK (_Shak._), a hunchback.--_adj._ CROOK'BACKED; CROOK'ED, bent
like a crook: not straight: deviating from rectitude, perverse.--_adv._
CROOK'EDLY.--_n._ CROOK'EDNESS.--_adjs._ CROOK'-KNEED;
CROOK'-SHOUL'DERED.--A CROOK IN THE LOT, any trial in one's experience.
[Prob. Scand.; cf. Ice. _krókr_, Dan. _krog_.]