(adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.

(adv.) Behind; in the rear.

(adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

(n.) An abacus.

(adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.

(interj.) An exclamation expressive of sorrow.

(adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.

(v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

(v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh.

(v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens.

(n.) The chuck or call of a hen.

(n.) A sudden, small noise.

(n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.

(v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.

(v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.

(v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

(n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin.

(n.) A short throw; a toss.

(n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

(n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.

(n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.

(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.

(n.) A short, thick piece of anything.

(a.) Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.

(a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.

(v. i.) To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.

(n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

(n.) A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.

(v. t.) To clothe in a frock.

(v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.

(n.) See 1st Fluke.

(v. i.) To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.

(v. t.) To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.

(n.) A failure or backing out

(n.) a total failure in a recitation.

() Alt. of Sculker

(n.) Charcoal; a cinder.

(v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.

(n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

(n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.

(n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.

(n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

(n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

(n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

(n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

(n.) Small chick or crack.

(v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.

(v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

(v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.

(v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.

(v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

(v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.

(v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.

(v. i.) To clash or interfere.

(v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.

(v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

(v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

(a.) Checkered; designed in checks.

(n.) The side of the face below the eye.

(n.) The cheek bone.

(n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

(n.) The branches of a bridle bit.

(n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

(n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.

(v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to.

(v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.

(n.) A chicken.

(n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.

(n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

(v. i.) To crack; to open.

(v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

(v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

(n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

(n.) Money; cash.

(v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

(v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

(v. i.) To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.

(v. i.) To chirp like a bird.

(v. t.) To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.

(v. i.) Lively; cheerful; in good spirits.

(n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

(v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.

(v. i.) A small quantity; a taste.

(v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss.

(v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

(v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap.

(adv.) As if with a smack or slap.

(n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

(n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.

(n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

(n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.

(v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

(v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.

(v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.

(n. & v.) See Smirk.

(a.) Alt. of Smerky

(v. i.) To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

(n.) A forced or affected smile; a simper.

(a.) Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.

(imp.) of Drink.

(n.) Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.

(n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

(n.) A blouse; a smoock frock.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

(v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.

(v. t.) A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.

(v. t.) A slight, hasty repast.

(v. t.) To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door.

(n.) A door latch.

(n.) A small cut or mark.

(n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.

(n.) A knot or irregularity in yarn.

(n.) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.

(v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting.

(v. t.) To hit (a ball) lightly.

(n. & v. t.) See Sneck.

(v. i.) To lurk; to lie in ambush.

(n.) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo.

(n.) The cobia.

(n.) The garfish.

(imp.) of Drink

() of Drink

(p. p.) of Drink

(v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

(v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.

(v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.

(v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

(v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

(v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.

(n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.

(n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.

(n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

(n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

(n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.

(n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.

(n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

(n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.

(n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

(n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.

(n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

(v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.

(v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.

(v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.

(v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.

(n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.

(n.) Stiff; rigid.

(n.) Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire.

(n.) Strong; vigorous; powerful.

(n.) Severe; violent; fierce.

(n.) Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.

(adv.) Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.

(v. t.) To stiffen.

(a. & adv.) In a frenzied and reckless manner.

(a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.

(a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

(a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.

(a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

(adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

(n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.

(n.) A black pigment or dye.

(n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

(n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black

(n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.

(n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.

(n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.

(a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.

(a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

(a.) Of a white or pale color; without color.

(a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

(a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited.

(a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

(a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.

(a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.

(a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

(n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

(n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

(n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.

(n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.

(n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

(n.) Aim; shot; range.

(n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.

(n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

(n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."

(v. t.) To make void; to annul.

(v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

(n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

(n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.

(n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.

(v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.

(v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.

(v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.

(v. t.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.

(v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

(v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

(v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

(n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.

(n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

(n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.

(a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

(adv. & a.) In a reeking condition.

(superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

(superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.

(superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.

(superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.

(superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.

(superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.

(superl.) Pregnant; with child.

(adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.

(n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.

(n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.

(n.) Quitch grass.

(v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.

(n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

(n.) A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.

(n.) A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.

(n.) An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.

(n.) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.

(n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.

(a.) Without color; pale; pallid.

(a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

(a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

(a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

(v. t.) Alt. of Blek

(v. i.) To blink; to shine; to look.

(n. & v.) See Balk.

(v. i.) To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.

(v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.

(v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.

(v. i.) To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

(v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.

(v. t.) To trick; to deceive.

(v. i.) A glimpse or glance.

(v. i.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.

(v. i.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

(pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.

(v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.

(v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.

(v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.

(v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.

(v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.

(v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.

(v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.

(v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.

(v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.

(v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.

(v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

(v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.

(v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.

(n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.

(n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.

(n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.

(n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.

(n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.

(v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

(v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.

(v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.

(v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

(v. t.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.

(n.) See Clake.

(n.) The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.

(n.) An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw.

(n.) Salt or brackish water.

(n.) Buckwheat.

(n.) Alt. of Branks

(v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.

(v. i.) To prance; to caper.

(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.

(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.

(n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.

(n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.

(n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.

(n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

(v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.

(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.

(v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.

(n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.

(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.

(a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.

() imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.

(n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.

(n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.

(n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

(v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook.

(n.) A shock of grain.

(n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.

(n.) The shell of an oyster or clam.

(v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

(a.) Soaking.

(v. t. & n.) See Calk.

(n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.

(a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.

(a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.

(v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

(n.) A badger.

(n.) A brocket.

(v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.

(v. t.) To use; to enjoy.

(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.

(v. t.) To deserve; to earn.

(a.) Same as Brusque.

(n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

(n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.

(v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.

(v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land.

(v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.

(n.) The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.

(v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.

(v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.

(v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

(v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.

(v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.

(v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.

(v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

(v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.

(v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.

(v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.

(v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.

(v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.

(v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.

(v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.

(v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.

(v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

(v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.

(v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.

(v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.

(v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm.

(v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.

(v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

(v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

(v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.

(v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.

(v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.

(v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.

(v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.

(v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.

(v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.

(v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.

(v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.

(v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.

(v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.

(v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

(v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

(n.) See Commutator.

(v. t.) A slice of beef, broiled, or cut for broiling; -- also extended to the meat of other large animals; as, venison steak; bear steak; pork steak; turtle steak.

(n.) A kind of black tea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.

(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.

(n.) A swindler; a knave; a cheat.

(n.) Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.

(n.) A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it.

(n.) A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.

(n.) The chimaera.

(a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).

(a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

(n.) A drunken condition; a spree.

(n.) Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.

(n.) An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk.

(v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

(v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.

(v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

(v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.

(v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.

(v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.

(v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

(v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.

(v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.

(n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.

(n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.

(n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.

(n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

(n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.

(n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.

(n.) A boast; boasting.

(n.) Breach of chastity.

(n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

(n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.

(n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.

(a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.

(n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

(n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

(n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

(n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.

(n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.

(n.) A sick person; an invalid.

(n.) Sick; infirm.

(n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.

(n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

(n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

(v. i.) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.

(v. t.) To produce a creaking sound with.

(n.) The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

(n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.

(v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.

(v. i.) To sound with a clank.

(n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

(n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

(n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

(n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

(n.) An assistant in a shop or store.

(v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

(v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.

(v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.

(n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

(n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

(v. t.) To snatch.

(n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

(n.) The latch of a door.

(v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

(v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.

(v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].

(n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.

(n.) A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

(n.) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.

(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.

(n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

(n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.

(n.) The striking of a clock.

(n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

(v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

(v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

(n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).

(v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

(v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

(n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.

(n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.

(n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.

(n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

(n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

(n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.

(v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

(v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

(v. t. & i.) See Choke.

(v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

(v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity.

(n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

(n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

(adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

(v. t.) To encounter.

(n.) An encounter.

(n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

(n.) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

(n.) Any turn or winding.

(a.) Danish.

(n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

(n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.

(n.) A small jackscrew.

(adv.) At work; in action.

(v. i.) To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

(v. i.) To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

(v. t.) To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.

(n.) The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

(n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

(v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.

(v. i.) To give off crock or smut.

(n.) A low stool.

(n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.

(v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.

(n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

(n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

(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.

(v. i.) Alt. of Crunkle

(a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.

(a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

(a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.

(a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:

(a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.

(a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.

(a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.

(n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.

(n.) The cusk. See Cusk.

(n.) The codfish. Called also tusk.

(v. t.) To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle.

(v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

(n.) A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.

(n.) Trouble; distress; tweag.

(n.) A prostitute.

(v. i.) To twinkle.

(n.) A wink; a twinkling.

(n.) The chaffinch.

(n.) The bearded seal.

(adv.) In a cocked or turned up fashion.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.

(v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink.

(v. i.) To serve or draw liquor.

(n.) Drink; also, pottage.

(v. i.) To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk.

(n.) A number of foxes together.

(n.) Alt. of Skulker

(n.) Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.

(v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.

(n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.

(n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell.

(superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.

(superl.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.

(superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.

(superl.) Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack.

(adv.) Slackly; as, slack dried hops.

(n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.

(a.) Alt. of Slacken

(v. t.) Alt. of Slacken

() imp. & p. p. of Slink.

(superl.) Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.

(superl.) Not rough or harsh.

(adv.) With ease and dexterity.

(n.) That which makes smooth; varnish.

(v. t.) To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.

(n.) See Schlich.

(a.) Sleek; smooth.

(v. t.) To make sleek or smoth.

(n.) A wide paring chisel.

(imp.) of Slink

() of Slink

(p. p.) of Slink

(a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.

(a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.

(v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.

(a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.

(a.) Thin; lean.

(n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.

(n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak.

(v. t.) Alt. of Slocken

() imp. & p. p. of Slink.

(v. t.) Alt. of Steik

(v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.

(n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap.

(v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.

(v. t.) A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

(v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.

(v. t.) Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.

(v. t.) A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.

(v. t.) A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.

(v. t.) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stick

(n.) To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.

(n.) To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.

(n.) To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.

(n.) To set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.

(n.) To set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.

(n.) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.

(n.) To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.

(n.) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.

(n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck.

(n.) To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.

(n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.

(v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.

(v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.

(v. i.) To be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.

(v. i.) To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.

(v. i.) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

(n.) A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.

(n.) A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.

(n.) That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle.

(n.) A brisk, showy, gay man.

(n.) A lover; a gallant; a beau.

(v. i.) To sparkle.

(v. i.) To play the spark, beau, or lover.

(v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.

(v. i.) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.

(v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.

(v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.

(v. i.) To give sound; to sound.

(v. i.) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.

(v. t.) To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.

(v. t.) To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.

(v. t.) To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.

(v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.

(v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.

(n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

(n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.

(n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.

(n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.

(v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stink

(v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.

(v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

(n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

(n.) A young bullock or heifer.

(n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

(n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.

(n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

(n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

(n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.

(n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.

(n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.

(n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.

(n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.

(n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.

(n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

(n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.

(n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.

(n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.

(n.) Same as Stock account, below.

(n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.

(n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.

(n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.

(n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

(n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).

(n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.

(n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.

(n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.

(n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

(n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).

(n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.

(n.) A race or variety in a species.

(n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

(n.) The beater of a fulling mill.

(n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.

(v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

(v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.

(v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.

(v. t.) To put in the stocks.

(a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.

(n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

(n.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.

(v. t.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

(n.) A spike or nail.

(v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.

(v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.

(v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.

(n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.

(n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.

(n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

(imp.) of Shake

() of Shake

(n.) See Chank.

(v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg.

(v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved.

(v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock.

(v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms.

(v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle.

(v.) A loop forming an eye to a button.

(v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.

(v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.

(v.) The body of a type.

(v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.

(v.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.

(v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.

(v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.

(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.

(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.

(v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.

(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

(v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

(n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade.

(v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

(v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.

(v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

(v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.

(n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

(n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.

(n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

(n.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.

(n.) The chaffinch.

(n.) A pigsty.

(v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.

(n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note.

(n.) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.

(n.) Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.

(n.) Liberal; generous; profuse.

(n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To send by public conveyance free of expense.

(v. t.) To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.

(a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.

(a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.

(a.) A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.

(a.) A French coin. See Franc.

(v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.

(n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.

(v. t.) To checker; to diversify.

(v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.

(v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.

(n.) A smart resounding blow.

(a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.

(a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.

(a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.

(a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.

(a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

(a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.

(a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.

(a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

(v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.

() imp. & p. p. of Stick.

(n.) A thrust.

(v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.

(v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.

() imp. & p. p. of Stink.

(n.) See Stirk.

(n.) A jest or scoff; a trick or deception.

(n.) An enticing look or glance.

(v. i.) To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

(n.) A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons.

(n.) Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything.

(n.) A kind of fishing net.

(v. i.) A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.

(v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.

(v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.

(v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.

(v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.

(v. i.) A freight car.

(v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.

(v. t.) To transport on a truck or trucks.

(v. t.) To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.

(v. i.) To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.

(n.) Exchange of commodities; barter.

(n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.

(n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.

(n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

(n.) The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

(n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

(n.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

(n.) That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

(n.) The proboscis of an elephant.

(n.) The proboscis of an insect.

(n.) A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

(n.) A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.

(n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

(n.) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.

(n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

(v. t.) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

(v. t.) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.

(n.) A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural.

(n.) To express gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for blame.

() Alt. of Thacker

(v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

(v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.

(v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.

(v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.

(v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

(v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.

(v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.

(v.) The footprint of a hare.

(v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.

(n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.

(n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.

(n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.

(n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.

(n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.

(n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

(n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.

(n.) To render acid or pungent.

(n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.

(n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.

(n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.

(n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

(n.) To nick.

(v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.

(v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.

(v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

(v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.

(v. t.) To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.

(v. t.) To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.

(imp.) of Swink

() of Swink

(v. i.) To labor; to toil; to salve.

(v. t.) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.

(v. t.) To acquire by labor.

(n.) Labor; toil; drudgery.

(v. t.) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.

(v. i.) To make ostentatious show.

(n.) A gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous trick; a caper; a frolic.

(a.) Full of gambols or tricks.

(v. t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.

(v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.

(n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

(n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.

(n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.

(n.) A road; a beaten path.

(n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.

(n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.

(n.) The permanent way; the rails.

(n.) A tract or area, as of land.

(v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

(v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.

(v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.

(v. t.) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

(n.) A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

(n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.

(n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

(n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.

(n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.

(n.) The side of any building.

(n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

(v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.

(v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.

(v. i.) To border; to touch.

(v. i.) To be posted on the side.

(n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.

(n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.

(n.) A bed in a gun carriage.

(n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.

(superl.) Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick.

(superl.) Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

(superl.) Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.

(superl.) Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.

(superl.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.

(superl.) Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.

(superl.) Deep; profound; as, thick sleep.

(superl.) Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.

(superl.) Intimate; very friendly; familiar.

(n.) The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.

(n.) A thicket; as, gloomy thicks.

(adv.) Frequently; fast; quick.

(adv.) Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.

(adv.) To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.

(v. t. & i.) To thicken.

(pron.) That same; this; that.

(v. t.) To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

(v. t.) To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.

(v. t.) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.

(v. t.) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.

(v. t.) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.

(v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.

(v. t.) To presume; to venture.

(v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.

(v. t.) To plan or design; to plot; to compass.

(v. t.) To believe; to consider; to esteem.

(n.) A flake; a thread or twist.

(n.) A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

(n.) A spot; a streak; a speckle.

(n.) To spot; to streak or stripe; to variegate; to dapple.

(v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.

(imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.

(v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner.

(n.) A mean, sneaking fellow.

(n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.

(a.) Weak; worn out.

(v. i.) To sigh.

(imp.) Stunk.

(n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.

(n.) A dam or mound to stop water.

(v. t.) To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

(n.) A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.

() of Stink

(v. i.) To frisk; to skip; to caper.

(n.) A caper; a spring; a whim.

(n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.

(n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.

(v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds.

(v. t.) To flock to; to crowd.

(n.) A lock of wool or hair.

(n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

(sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.

(v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.

(n.) A fluke of an anchor.

(n.) Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe.

(n.) A papule; a pustule; acne.

(n.) A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

(n.) A kind of mollusk, a whelk.

(n.) The scoter.

(pron.) Which.

(n.) A game at cards; whist.

(n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff.

(n.) A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.

(n.) A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc.

(n.) A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.

(n.) An impertinent fellow.

(n.) A plane used by coopers for evening chines.

(n.) To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth.

(n.) To move with a quick, sweeping motion.

(v. i.) To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.

(n.) A kind of portable camera.

(n.) A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

(v. t.) To rack; to torment.

(n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction.

(n.) Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.

(n.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.

(v. t.) To wreck.

(v. i.) To reck; to care.

(v. t.) To revenge; to avenge.

(v. t.) To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.

(v. t.) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.

(v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.

(v. t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.

(v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.

(v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.

(v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.

(v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.

(v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.

(v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.

(v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

(v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.

(v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

(v. t.) To pull; to draw.

(v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.

(v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

(v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.

(v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

(n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

(n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

(n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

(n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

(v. t.) The lyrie.

(n.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.

(n.) A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.

(v. i.) To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.

(v. i.) To speak affectedly.

(n.) A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

(n.) A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.

(n.) Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.

(n.) A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.

(n. & v.) See Click.