Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
bent like ahook ;incurvation .
Etymologies
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hooked + -ness
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Examples
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Or that the little protuberances in the candle-snuff thicken the air and make it cloudy; or the hookedness of the nails is the cause and not an accident consequential to an ulcer.
Symposiacs 2004
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Or that the little protuberances in the candle-snuff thicken the air and make it cloudy; or the hookedness of the nails is the cause and not an accident consequential to an ulcer.
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