I.hooked, bent in, crooked, curved, barbed (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; “syn.: curvus, recurvus): uncus hamus,” Ov. M. 15, 476; “also called unca aera,” id. P. 2, 7, 10: “cornua (tauri),” Prop. 2, 5, 19: “aratrum,” Verg. G. 1, 19; Ov. M. 5, 341; 7, 210; cf.: “vomer aratri,” Lucr. 1, 313; “also called dens,” Verg. G. 2, 423: “pedes (harpyiae),” id. A. 3, 233: “ungues,” Lucr. 5, 1322: “manus,” Verg. G. 2, 365: “digiti,” Col. 7, 11, 2: “cauda,” Ov. M. 15, 371: “labrum,” Lucr. 4, 588; 5, 1407.—
II. Transf.: “unco non alligat ancora morsu,” Verg. A. 1, 169: “avis Minervae,” i. e. with crooked beak and talons, Stat. Th. 3, 507; cf. “alites,” id. ib. 12, 212.