Thesaurus: rook

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1. n. Mist; fog. See Roke.
2. v. i. To squat; to ruck.
3. n. One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
4. n. 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.
5. n. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
6. v. t. & i. To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
7. n. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
8. n. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
9. v. deprive of by deceit
10. Mist; fog. See Roke. [Obs.] To squat; to ruck. [Obs.] Shak. One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle. 1. (Zoöl.) 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. The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend. Pennant. 2. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley. To cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking officials." Milton.
11. Mist; fog. See Roke. [Obs.]
12. v:11/n:89 n. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow