(n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
(n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
(n.) A pothook.
(n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
(n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
(n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
(n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
(n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
(v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Example Sentences:
(1) A patient presented at the Department of Orthodontics, Medunsa Dental Hospital, complaining of "crooked teeth".
(2) And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump doubles down on his Isis comments, saying that Hillary Clinton is the group’s MVP On Thursday, Clinton attacked Trump for the remarks on Twitter.
(3) Subjects were examined for somatic symptoms in accordance with Crooks' index of hyperthyroidism.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook in Detectorists.
(5) I have these words for the authorities: [it is a] creepy, crooked, evil way."
(6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
(7) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
(8) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
(9) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
(10) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
(11) Some of them may feel favourable towards what they're doing, but many of them are able to hear their inner Jiminy Cricket over the voices of their leaders and crooked politicians – and of the people whose intimate communication they're tapping.
(12) For analysis of the cytokeratin (CK) of Crooke's cells, 28 post-mortem pituitary glands with unequivocal Crooke's hyaline change were investigated immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies for CK subfamilies.
(13) We drove north from Salima, past Nkhotakota, looking out for the crooked painted sign, but it had disappeared.
(14) Various locations, Chicago, opens 3 October New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 It’s 1920: the German Empire has crumbled, and Berlin is a city of cripples and crooks, communists and cabaret stars.
(15) Clinical assessment (using the Crooks-Wayne index) was combined with the measurement of free thyroxine and triiodothyronine indices (FT4I and FT3I) and the assessment of two tissue markers of thyroid hormone action--sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels and the thyrotrophin responses to TRH.
(16) The zones were perpendicular to the long axes of the crooked floccular folia, forming the crooked zones.
(17) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
(18) • The trip was provided by Crooked Trails (+1 206 383 9828, crookedtrails.org ), which works to help indigenous and rural communities worldwide benefit from tourism.
(19) about some property crook he'd first exposed in 1969 but who wasn't finally convicted until five or six years ago.
(20) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.
Shepherd
Definition:
(n.) A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
(n.) The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
(v. t.) To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Menstrual characteristics of 2,343 women attending the Shepherd Foundation Health Testing Centre have been analyzed utilizing a computer system of data analysis.
(2) Children are stoned going to school and Palestinian shepherds and farmers are common targets for violence.
(3) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(4) The highest seropositive reaction rate (6.1%) was obtained during examination of shepherds.
(5) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
(6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
(7) Breed predispositions were not documented, although four patients were German Shepherd dogs.
(8) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
(9) Japan has recalled its whaling fleet from the Antarctic following confrontations with activists from the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group, the government has said, in a move that has raised hopes that the hunts will be halted altogether.
(10) Twenty-three puppies with cranofacial and limb abnormalities from a family of Australian shepherd dogs were studied anatomically.
(11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
(12) Eight German Shepherd pups, about 75 days old and a live weight of 11 kg at the beginning of the trial, were used to assay a diet formulated according to NRC, 1985 (Nutrient Requirements of Dogs).
(13) There are tales of hotel chambermaids and shepherds being told to pack their bags, and then come back as hired guns to grab work as and when their former employers require it.
(14) Neuroepitheliomas were in three German shepherds as intradural-extramedullary solitary masses, with spinal cord displacement between T10 and L2.
(15) Australia's former environment minister, Ian Campbell, told Australian television from aboard a Sea Shepherd vessel that the group would "have to get organised to go out to the oceans and save the whales off South Korea".
(16) "I'm reminded of the David Sedaris story about his parents' getting a replacement German Shepherd when their first, Maedchen, dies: "Maedchen was hit and killed by a car.
(17) The Institute of Cetacean Research blamed low demand on the complicated auction procedure and reluctance among food suppliers to attract criticism from anti-whaling groups such as Sea Shepherd .
(18) A colony of German shepherd dogs was studied in which a high proportion of antinuclear antibody (ANAb) carriers and dogs with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-like signs were found.
(19) Skin reaction patterns to the intradermal injection of a whole-body flea extract were examined in five physically healthy dogs and in 24 dogs with German Shepherd dog Pyoderma (GSP) at 15 and 30 minutes and at 1, 2, 4, 8, 24, 48 and 72 hours after the injection.
(20) 7.58am BST Jessica Shepherd, from the Guardian's newsdesk, says surprisingly prestigious courses still have vacancies.