A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
A pothook.
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
A bishop's standard staff of office.
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
Ill, sick.
Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
Annoyed, angry; upset.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
To become bent or hooked.
To bend, or form into a hook.
The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
The interior or inner part.
(in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
In or to prison.
Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
Indoors.
Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
Within a period of time.