(v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

(v. t.) To throw.

(n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

(n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

(v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

(v. t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

(v. i.) To prepare food for the table.

(n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

(n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

(n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

(v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

(v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

(a.) Sick.

(v. t.) To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

(v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.

(v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.

(v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

(v. i.) To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.

(n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks

(n.) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.

(n.) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

(n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

(n.) Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.

(n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

(n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.

(n.) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.

(n.) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).

(n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.

(n.) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

(v. i.) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

(v. i.) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

(v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.

(v. i.) To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.

(v. i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

(n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.

(v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

(v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.

(n.) Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.

(n.) See Coke, n.

(n.) A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers.

(n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.

(v. t.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces.

(n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

(n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.

(n.) A chief man; a leader or master.

(n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.

(n.) A faucet or valve.

(n.) The style of gnomon of a dial.

(n.) The indicator of a balance.

(n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.

(v. t.) To set erect; to turn up.

(v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.

(v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.

(v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.

(v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.

(n.) The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.

(n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow.

(n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.

(v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.

(v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.

(n.) A small concial pile of hay.

(v. t.) To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.

(n.) A small boat.

(n.) A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.

(v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

(a.) Trim; neat.

(v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up.

(n.) A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander.

(v. t.) To stab with a dirk.

(a.) Dark.

(v. t.) To darken.

(n.) A roc.

(v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.

(n.) Same as Arrack.

(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

(n.) A wreck; destruction.

(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.

(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.

(n.) A fast amble.

(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.

(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.

(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.

(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.

(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.

(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

(a.) A distaff.

(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.

(v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

(v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

(v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

(v. t.) To pass by the banks of.

(n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

(n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

(n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc.

(n.) A sort of table used by printers.

(n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

(n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

(n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.

(n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

(n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

(n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

(v. t.) To deposit in a bank.

(v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

(v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.

(n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.

(n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.

(n.) Nonsense; vain words.

(n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.

(n.) A bench.

(v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.

(v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

(v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

(v. i.) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

(v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

(n.) The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

(n.) Alt. of Barque

(n.) A birch tree.

(n.) A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).

(n.) Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.

(n.) See Bisque.

(v. t.) To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.

(v. t.) To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

(n.) A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.

(n.) Same as Arrack.

(n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk

(n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.

(n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.

(n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.

(n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

(n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

(n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.

(n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

(n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

(n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

(n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

(n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).

(n.) A magistrate or policeman.

(n.) See Beak.

(n.) A small brook.

(n.) A vat. See Back.

(v. i.) To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.

(v. t.) To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

(n.) A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

(v. t.) To vomit.

(v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

(v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."

(v. i.) One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

(v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

(v. i.) A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

(v. i.) A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball.

(v. t.) To leave or make balks in.

(v. t.) To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.

(v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.

(v. t.) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.

(v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation.

(v. i.) To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.

(v. i.) To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

(v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

(n.) A rick.

(n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.

(v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

(v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.

(v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

(n.) A heap; a rick.

(n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.

(v. i.) To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.

(n.) A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.

(n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.

(n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

(v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

(v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.

(v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.

(n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

(n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.

(v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.

(v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

(n.) The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe.

(n.) A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.

(n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

(n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

(n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.

(n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."

(n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

(n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.

(v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.

(v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

(v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

(n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.

(n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

(n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

(n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

(n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

(n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

(n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.

(n.) A thicket; a small wood.

(n.) The body.

(n.) Bulk; volume.

(superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

(superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.

(superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.

(superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

(superl.) Strong to the taste.

(superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.

(adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.

(n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.

(n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).

(n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

(n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.

(n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.

(n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.

(v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.

(v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.

(v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.

(v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.

(v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

(n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.

(v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.

(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

(v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

(v. t.) To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).

(v. t.) To nickname; to style.

(a.) Dark.

(superl.) Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness.

(superl.) Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache.

(superl.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery.

(superl.) Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned.

(n.) Sickness.

(v. i.) To fall sick; to sicken.

(n.) A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

(n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."

(v. t.) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

(n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.

(n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.

(n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.

(n.) Alt. of Cauker

(n.) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.

(n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

(n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

(v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.

(v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

(v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

(n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.

(n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.

(n.) A male Indian or negro.

(v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.

(v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.

(v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

(v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.

(n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

(n.) The beech tree.

(n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

(n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.

(n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

(n.) The body.

(v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.

(v.) A projecting part of a building.

(v. i.) To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

(n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

(n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.

(n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

(v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

(imp.) of Sink

() of Sink

(p. p.) of Sink

(v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.

(v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.

(v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.

(v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.

(v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.

(v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.

(v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.

(v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.

(v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.

(v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.

(v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.

(v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.

(n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

(n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.

(n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.

() imp. of Take.

(v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.

(v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.

(v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.

(v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.

(imp.) of Take

(n.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

(n.) To confer; to reason; to consult.

(n.) To prate; to speak impertinently.

(v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.

(v. t.) To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

(v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

(v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking.

(n.) The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.

(n.) Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.

(n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

(v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.

(v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.

(v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.

(v. t.) To draw or drain.

(v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.

(v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.

(v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.

(v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake.

(n.) The act of drawing with the mouth.

(n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.

(n.) A small draught.

(n.) Juice; succulence.

(n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

(n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

(v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

(v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

(v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.

(v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

(v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.

(n.) A pet; a darling.

(n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.

(n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.

(v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.

(v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

(v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

(v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.

(v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.

(v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.

(v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

(v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.

(v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.

(v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.

(v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.

(v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.

(v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.

(v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.

(v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.

(n.) A plowshare.

(n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.

(n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

(n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.

(n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

(n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

(n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

(n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

(n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.

(n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

(n.) See Roc.

(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.

(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.

(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.

(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.

(n.) A rush.

(n.) A prank.

(n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.

(v. i.) To squat; to ruck.

(n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

(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.

(n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.

(v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

(v. t.) To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.

(v. t.) To concern; -- used impersonally.

(v. i.) To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.

() imp. of Sink.

(n.) A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.

(v. i.) To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.

(v. t.) To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.

(n.) A shirt.

(v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

(n.) Same as Casque.

(n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.

(n.) The quantity contained in a cask.

(n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.

(v. t.) To put into a cask.

(a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.

(n.) Moisture; humidity; water.

(n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.

(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.

(a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.

(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.

(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.

(a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.

(a.) Deprived of sight; blind.

(n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.

(n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.

(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.

(v. t.) To darken to obscure.

(v. t.) See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.

(n.) See Dak.

(v. t.) To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.

(n.) A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.

(n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.

(n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.

(n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

(n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.

(n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.

(n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.

(n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

(n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.

(n.) A support or resource in reserve.

(n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.

(n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.

(n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.

(a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.

(a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.

(a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.

(v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.

(v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.

(v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.

(v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.

(v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.

(v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.

(v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.

(v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.

(v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.

(v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

(v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.

(adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.

(adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.

(adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.

(adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.

(adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.

(adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.

(adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.

(adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.

(adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.

(adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

(v. t.) To cover; to overspread.

(v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.

(v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

(v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.

(v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.

(v.) The roof of a passenger car.

(v.) A pack or set of playing cards.

(v.) A heap or store.

(a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

(n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.

(n.) A darkish color.

(v. t.) To make dusk.

(v. i.) To grow dusk.

(n.) A sea fish. See Hake.

(n.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.

(n.) A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment.

(n.) A notch.

(n.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.

(v. t.) To notch; to fit to the string, as an arrow; to string, as a bow.

(n.) The cry of a wild goose.

(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

(n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

(n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

(n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.

(n.) A snare; a trap.

(n.) A field sown two years in succession.

(n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.

(v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.

(v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

(v. t.) To steal.

(v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.

(n.) A maggot.

(n.) A slattern; a mawks.

(n.) A hook with a long handle.

(v. i. & t.) To become lank; to make lank.

(n.) Work; a building.

(v. i.) A frolic; a jolly time.

(v. i.) To sport; to frolic.

(n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.

(v. i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.

(n.) A diarrhea or flux.

(v. i.) Wanting physical strength.

(v. i.) Deficient in strength of body; feeble; infirm; sickly; debilitated; enfeebled; exhausted.

(v. i.) Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.

(v. i.) Not firmly united or adhesive; easily broken or separated into pieces; not compact; as, a weak ship.

(v. i.) Not stiff; pliant; frail; soft; as, the weak stalk of a plant.

(v. i.) Not able to resist external force or onset; easily subdued or overcome; as, a weak barrier; as, a weak fortress.

(v. i.) Lacking force of utterance or sound; not sonorous; low; small; feeble; faint.

(v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.

(v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army.

(v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc.

(v. i.) Feeble of mind; wanting discernment; lacking vigor; spiritless; as, a weak king or magistrate.

(v. i.) Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.

(v. i.) Not having full confidence or conviction; not decided or confirmed; vacillating; wavering.

(v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue.

(v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty.

(v. i.) Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained; as, a weak argument or case.

(v. i.) Wanting in point or vigor of expression; as, a weak sentence; a weak style.

(v. i.) Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.

(v. i.) Lacking in elements of political strength; not wielding or having authority or energy; deficient in the resources that are essential to a ruler or nation; as, a weak monarch; a weak government or state.

(v. i.) Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix -ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).

(v. i.) Pertaining to, or designating, a noun in Anglo-Saxon, etc., the stem of which ends in -n. See Strong, 19 (b).

(a.) To make or become weak; to weaken.

(n.) Same as Torsk.

(n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.

(n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.

(n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.

(v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.

(n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.

(n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.

(n.) An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.

(n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.

(n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack

(n.) A device to pull off boots.

(n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.

(n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.

(n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.

(n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.

(n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.

(n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.

(n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.

(n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.

(n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.

(n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.

(n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.

(n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.

(n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.

(n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.

(n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass.

(n.) A young pike; a pickerel.

(n.) The jurel.

(n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.

(n.) The wall-eyed pike.

(n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.

(n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.

(n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.

(n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.

(n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.

(n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.

(v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.

(v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.

(v. t.) To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

(v. t.) To beat; to strike.

(v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.

(v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.

(v. i.) To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.

(v. i.) To flout with contempt.

(n.) A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.

(n.) A sudden start or spring.

(n.) The razorbill.

(n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

(n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.

(n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

(v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.

(v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.

(v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.

(n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

(n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.

(n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.

(v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.

(a.) Such.

(n.) A discus; a quoit.

(n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.

(n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

(n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

(n.) The whole surface of a leaf.

(n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.

(n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

(n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.

(n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.

(n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.

(a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent.

(n.) In owls, the space around the eyes.

(n.) Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

(n.) A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.

(n.) An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.

(n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

(n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.

(n.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

(n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.

(n.) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.

(n.) The European bullfinch.

(n.) A cuckoo.

(n.) A simpleton; a booby; a gawky.

(v. i.) To act like a gawky.

(n.) Scorn, derision, or contempt.

(n.) An object of scorn; a dupe; a gull.

(n.) To deride; to scorn; to mock.

(n.) To cheat; trick, or gull.

(v. i.) To jeer; to show contempt.

(n.) An offensive smell; a stench.

(v. t.) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

(v. i.) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.

(v. i.) To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.

(n.) Alt. of Funking

(v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.

(v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.

(v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.

(v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.

(v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.

(v. i.) To move off; to depart.

(v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.

(v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.

(v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.

(n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.

(n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.

(n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.

(n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.

(n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.

(n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.

(n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.

(superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

(superl.) Languid; drooping.

(n.) A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.

(n.) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).

(n.) The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.

(n.) The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).

(n.) A plant of the genus Erodium (E. moschatum); -- called also musky heron's-bill.

(n.) A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

(v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.

(v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.

(a.) Leaky.

(n.) To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole, crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.

(n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out.

(n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

(n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

(n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

(n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

(n.) The gibbet.

(v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn.

(v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

(v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

(v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane.

(v. t.) To cause to wither; to wilt.

(v. t.) To contract; to shorten.

(v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely.

(n.) A pustule. See 2d Whelk.

(n.) A whelk.

(n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.

(n.) A furrow.

(v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.

(n.) A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.

(v. t.) To perfume with musk.

(n.) See Whelk.

(v. i.) See Juke.

(superl.) Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive.

(superl.) Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face.

(v. t.) Alt. of Meeken

(n.) Same as Yolk.

(v. t.) To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.

(v. t.) To strike or lash with a whip.

(v. i.) To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.

(v. i.) To move a quick, jerking motion.

(n.) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

(n.) The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.

(n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.

(n.) The redshank.

(n.) Variant of Huke.

(n.) Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

(v. i.) To go on trust, or credit.

(v. i.) To give tick; to trust.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.

(n.) Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).

(n.) The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

(n.) Ticking. See Ticking, n.

(v. i.) To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

(v. i.) To strike gently; to pat.

(n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

(n.) Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.

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

(v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.

(n.) A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.

(n.) A rope or withe for fastening a gate.

(n.) Hold; influence.

(n.) A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.

(v. t.) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.

(v. t.) To form into hanks.

(v. i.) To listen; to hearken.

(v. t.) To beat; to strike; to chastise.

(v. i.) To fly out; to turn out; to go off.

(n.) A freak; trick; quirk.

(v. t.) To thwack.

(n.) A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.

(n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.

(v. i.) To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.

(v. i.) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.

(v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.

(v. t.) To raise by hawking, as phlegm.

(n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.

(v. t.) To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.

(n.) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.

(n.) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.

(n.) Alt. of Hough

(v. t.) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

(v. i.) To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle.

(n.) A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.

(v. i.) To itch.

(v. t.) To scratch.

(v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.

(v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.

(v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.

(v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.

(v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.

(v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.

(v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.

(n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.

(n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.

(n.) See Zinc.

(n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

(n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.

(v. i.) To wink; to blink.

(a.) Half-shut; winking.

(v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

(v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

(v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.

(n.) A stab.

(v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

(v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.

(v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

(v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

(a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

(v. i.) To higgle in trading.

(n.) The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.

(n.) A heavy ship of clumsy build.

(n.) Anything bulky or unwieldly.

(v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.

() imp. & p. p. of Sink.

(n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier.

(n.) The beat of a drum.

(v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.

(v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.

(v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.

(v. t.) To full, as cloth.

(v. i.) To contract; to draw together.

(n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.

(n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.

(n.) A pull; a lugging.

(n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.

(n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats.

(n.) A sharp blow; a thump.

(n.) A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Turkey.

(n.) A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey.

(n.) The plum weevil. See Curculio, and Plum weevil, under Plum.

(v. t.) To make a, booby of one); to stupefy.

(n.) The European cuckoo; -- called also gawky.

(n.) A simpleton; a gawk or gawky.

(n.) A stain; a tache.

(n.) A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.

(n.) A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.

(n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.

(v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).

(v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.

(v. t.) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.

(v. t.) Confidence; reliance.

(v. t.) To fasten or attach.

(n.) A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.

(n.) The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.

(n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

(v. t.) To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.

(n.) An evil spirit of the waters.

(n.) A notch cut into something

(n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

(n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

(v. i.) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.

(v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.

(v. t.) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.

(v. t.) To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.

(v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.

(n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.

(n.) Imitation; mimicry.

(a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.

(n.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.

(n.) The goatsucker.

(v.) To trim.

(v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

(v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

(v. i.) To steal; to pilfer.

(n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

(n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

(n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

(n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.

(n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.

(n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.

(v.) To throw; to pitch.

(v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

(v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

(v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.

(v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

(v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.

(v.) To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.

(v.) To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.

(v. t.) To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

(v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn.

(v. i.) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc.

(n.) A blow with the foot or feet; a striking or thrust with the foot.

(n.) The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

(n.) A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick.

(n.) The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged.

(n.) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.

(n.) That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.

(n.) A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.

(n.) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.

(n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.

(n.) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

(n.) A screen for a battery.

(n.) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.

(v. t.) To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.

(v. t.) To disguise; to cover; to hide.

(v. t.) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

(v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

(v. i.) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

(v. i.) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.

(v. i.) To lie hid; to lie in wait.

(v. i.) To keep out of sight.

(a.) Lazy; slothful.

(n.) A lazy fellow; a lubber.

(v. i.) To be idle or unemployed.

(n.) A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign; a scratch, scar, stain, etc.; as, this pencil makes a fine mark.

(n.) An evidence of presence, agency, or influence; a significative token; a symptom; a trace; specifically, a permanent impression of one's activity or character.

(n.) That toward which a missile is directed; a thing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach.

(n.) Attention, regard, or respect.

(n.) Limit or standard of action or fact; as, to be within the mark; to come up to the mark.

(n.) Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station.

(n.) Preeminence; high position; as, particians of mark; a fellow of no mark.

(n.) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.

(n.) A number or other character used in registring; as, examination marks; a mark for tardiness.

(n.) Image; likeness; hence, those formed in one's image; children; descendants.

(n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps."

(v. t.) To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.

(v. t.) To be a mark upon; to designate; to indicate; -- used literally and figuratively; as, this monument marks the spot where Wolfe died; his courage and energy marked him for a leader.

(v. t.) To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action; as, a pencil marks paper; his hobnails marked the floor.

(v. t.) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; as, to mark the points in a game of billiards or cards.

(v. t.) To notice or observe; to give attention to; to take note of; to remark; to heed; to regard.

(v. i.) To take particular notice; to observe critically; to note; to remark.

(n.) A license of reprisals. See Marque.

(n.) An old weight and coin. See Marc.

(n.) The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money; the equivalent of one hundred pfennigs. Also, a silver coin of this value.

(n.) A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything; esp., a line, point, stamp, figure, or the like, drawn or impressed, so as to attract the attention and convey some information or intimation; a token; a trace.

(n.) A character or device put on an article of merchandise by the maker to show by whom it was made; a trade-mark.

(n.) A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write.

(n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc.; as, a seamark, a landmark.

(n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.

(n.) An accomplice; a "pal."

(n.) An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc.

(n.) A mark; a sign.

(v. t.) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.

(v. t.) To express or manifest by a look.

(n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.

(n.) Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look.

(n.) Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.

(v. i.) To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.

(v. i.) To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.

(v. i.) To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.

(v. i.) To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.

(v. i.) In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.

(v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively.

(v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.

(v. t.) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.

(v. t.) To seek; to search for.

(v. t.) To expect.

(n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

(n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.

(n.) The bolt or latch of a door.

(n.) A rack for cattle to feed at.

(n.) A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.

(n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.

(n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.

(n.) A bend or winding of a stream.

(n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

(n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

(v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.

(v. t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.

(v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.

(n.) A notch; a cut.

(n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.

(n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

(n.) A kick on the shins.

(n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.

(n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.

(n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

(n.) A procuress.

(a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.

(v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

(v. t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

(v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

(v. i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

(n.) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

(n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

(n.) Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

(n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

(n.) A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

(n.) The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

(n.) Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal

(n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.

(n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.

(n.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.

(n.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.

(n.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.

(v. t.) To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.

(v. t. & i.) To kiss and caress amorously.

(n.) Alt. of Wich

(n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.

(v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.

(n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

(n.) A single ring or division of a chain.

(n.) Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.

(n.) Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.

(n.) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.

(n.) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.

(n.) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4.

(n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.

(n.) Sausages; -- because linked together.

(v. t.) To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.

(v. i.) To be connected.

(v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.

(v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.

(v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking.

(v.) A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.

(v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.

(v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.

(n.) A slap; a quick stroke.

(n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

(n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.

(n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.

(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.

(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.

(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.

(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.

(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

(n.) A grapple in wrestling.

(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.

(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.

(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.

(v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.

(v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.

(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.

(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

(n.) A small lobster.

(n.) A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

(n.) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.

(n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.

(n.) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.

(n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

(v. i.) To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.

(v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky.

(v. i.) To pry; to peep slyly.

(v. t.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.

(n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

(n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.

(v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.

(v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.

(v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.

(v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.

(v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.

(v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.

(n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

(a.) Dark; murky.

(n.) Darkness; mirk.

(n.) The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

(n.) Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

(n.) Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.

(v. t.) To blame; to find fault with.

(v. t.) To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

(v. i.) To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.

(v. i.) To be in want.

(interj.) Exclamation of regret or surprise.

(v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.

(v. i.) To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily.

(a.) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

(v. i.) To peer; to look inquisitively.

(n.) A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.

(n.) A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.

(n.) A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York.

(n.) A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.

(n.) A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

(v. t.) To inclose in a park, or as in a park.

(v. t.) To bring together in a park, or compact body; as, to park the artillery, the wagons, etc.

(n.) Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.

(n.) The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.

(n.) That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.

(n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.

(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.

(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.

(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.

(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.

(n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.

(n.) The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.

(n.) Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.

(n.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.

(n.) Ore before it is dressed.

(n.) Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.

(n.) To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.

(n.) Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.

(n.) Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.

(n.) To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.

(n.) To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.

(n.) To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.

(n.) To ferment, as a liquid.

(n.) To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.

(v. t.) To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.

(v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.

(v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.

(v. t.) To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.

(v. t.) To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.

(v. t.) To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.

(v. t.) To cause to ferment, as liquor.

(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.

(n.) See Mosque.

(n.) A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.

(n.) A jerk or twitch.

(v. t.) To twitch; to jerk.

(n.) An abbreviation of Yankee.

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

() abbreviation of Amuck.

(n.) Dung in a moist state; manure.

(n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.

(n.) Anything filthy or vile.

(n.) Money; -- in contempt.

(a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.

(v. t.) To manure with muck.

(a.) Dark; gloomy; murky.

(n.) Darkness; gloom; murk.

(n.) A pact.

(n.) A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.

(n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.

(n.) A number or quantity of connected or similar things

(n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.

(n.) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

(n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.

(n.) A shook of cask staves.

(n.) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

(n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

(n.) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

(n.) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.

(n.) See Pasch.

(n.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

(v. i.) To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.

(n.) An effort to vomit; queasiness.

(n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

(n.) An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.

(n.) A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches, or from the Roman Catholic Church.

(v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.

(n.) A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.

(n.) A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.