Crooked \Crook"ed\ (kr??k"?d), a.

1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. ``Crooked paths.'' --Locke.

he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. --Shak.

2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

They are a perverse and crooked generation. --Deut. xxxii. 5.

3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.]

--Barlett.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crook \Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooked (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crooking.]

[OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr?ka, Dan. kr?ge. See Crook, n.]

1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak.

2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic]

There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. --Ascham.

What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)