A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
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 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.
A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
A fugitive from the law.
An in-law: a relative by marriage.
A person who operates outside established norms.
One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
A wild horse.
A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
To declare illegal.
To place a ban upon.
To deprive of legal force.