ROOK
\ɹˈʊk], \ɹˈʊk], \ɹ_ˈʊ_k]\
Definitions of ROOK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
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common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
By Princeton University
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deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
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common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Mist; fog. See Roke.
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One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
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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.
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A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
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To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
By Oddity Software
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Mist; fog. See Roke.
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One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
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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.
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A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
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To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A bird resembling the common crow, but distinguishable from it by its colour and habits, and specially by a naked, warty skin at the base of the bill; a cheat; a trickish, rapacious fellow.
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To cheat; to defraud.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A bird of the crow family, having the base of the bill bare of feathers, noted for its thievish propensities; a cheat; a thief.
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The castle at chess.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Persian] One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board: a castle.
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n. A gregarious bird resembling the crow, but differing from it in feeding chiefly on insects and grain, instead of carrion and the like;— a cheat; a trickish or dishonest gambler.
