(n.) A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

(n.) A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.

(n.) A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.

(v. t.) To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.

(v. t.) To fill to overflow.

(n.) A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.

(n.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients.

(n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.

(n.) Contumely; reproach.

(v. t.) To repent; to displease; to disgust.

(v. t.) To take to task; to blame.

(v. t.) To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

(v. t.) To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse.

(n.) The Osage orange.

(v. t.) To lock, or fasten as with a lock.

(v. t.) To mask; to conceal.

(v. t.) To mock; to ridicule.

(n.) The peele.

(n.) Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary business.

(v. t.) To beseech.

(imp.) of Betake

() imp. of Betake.

() imp. of Shrink.

(v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.

(v. t.) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.

(n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

(imp.) of Shrink

() of Shrink

(p. p.) of Shrink

(v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

(v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.

(v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.

(v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.

(v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.

(n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.

(v.) To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel.

(n.) A creaking; a screech; a shriek.

(n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.

(n.) A long, broad boat used by the Eskimos.

(n.) Alt. of Oopak

(v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

(n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.

(n.) A strake.

(n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.

(n.) The rung or round of a ladder.

(v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.

(v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.

(v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak.

(n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.

(imp.) of Strike

(p. p.) of Strike

(a.) Quick; lively; alert.

(n.) A Canadian.

(n.) A small or medium-sized hardy horse, common in Canada.

(v. t.) To brook; to endure.

(v. t.) To pack a second time or anew; as, to repack beef; to repack a trunk.

(v. t.) To seek again.

(n.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.

(n.) A district or a subvision of a vilayet.

(n.) The yak.

(v. i.) To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.

(n.) Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.

(n.) The American night heron. See under Night.

(v. i.) To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak.

(v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

(n.) A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.

(v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

(v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

(v. t.) To set to work upon, as upon a task or problem, or some object of labor or investigation.

(v. t.) To begin to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.

(v. i.) To make an onset or attack.

(n.) The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.

(n.) An assault upon one's feelings or reputation with unfriendly or bitter words.

(n.) A setting to work upon some task, etc.

(n.) An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

(n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.

(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Awreke

(v. t. & i.) To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.

(v. t.) To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up.

(v. t.) To separate, as what is tacked; to disjoin; to release.

(v. t.) To unfold or undo, as a tuck; to release from a tuck or fold.

(v. t.) To undo or destroy, as work previously done.

(v. t.) To lock up.

(v. i.) To look or gaze up.

(v. i.) To seek or strain upward.

(adv.) Crookedly.

(v. t.) To chain together; to connect, as by links.

(v. t.) To lock; to inclose.

(v. t.) To place in ranks or in order.

(v. t.) To lop off; to abate.

(v. t.) To remove the husk from.

(n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.

(n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.

(n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

(n.) Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.

(n.) A deep pink or rose color.

(a.) Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.

(a.) Having the color of the damask rose.

(v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.

(n.) A strake.

(n.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.

(v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

(v. t.) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

(v. t.) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.

(v. i.) To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

(v. i.) To engage in any affair.

(v. t.) To enlarge in the way of bulk.

(v. t.) To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark.

(v. t.) To darken.

() imp. of Strike.

(n.) A stroke.

() imp. & p. p. of Strike.

(n.) One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.

(n.) One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.

(n.) See Mohawk.

(v. t.) To divest of ornaments.

(v. t.) To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

(v. t.) To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress.

(v. t. & i.) To work in or within.

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

(v. t.) To conceal, as in bushes; to hide.

(v. i.) To be concealed.

(v. t.) To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal.

(v. t.) To separate or undo, as links; to uncoil; to unfasten.

(v. t.) To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

(v. t.) To open, in general; to lay open; to undo.

(v. t.) To recall or retract, as a look.

(v. t.) To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.

(v. i.) To put off a mask.

(v. t.) To separate and remove, as things packed; to open and remove the contents of; as, to unpack a trunk.

(v. t.) To relieve of a pack or burden.

(v. t.) To pick out; to undo by picking.

(v. t.) To cover with a casque or as with a casque.

(v. t.) To inculcate.

(n.) An atheist or unbeliever; -- name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies.

(n.) A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat.

(n.) A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.

(n.) The missel thrush.

(n.) A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.

(n.) To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

(n.) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker.

(n.) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause; as, he remarked that it was time to go.

(v. i.) To make a remark or remarks; to comment.

(n.) Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation.

(n.) The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.

(v. t.) To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank.

(v. t.) To deprive of the bark; to decorticate; to strip; as, to unbark a tree.

(v. t.) To cause to disembark; to land.

(v. t.) To let down the cock of, as a firearm.

(v. t.) To deprive of its cocked shape, as a hat, etc.

(v. t.) To open or spread from a cock or heap, as hay.

(v. t.) To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.

(n.) See Loch, a medicine.

(n.) A peacock.

(n.) The American coot (Fulica).

(v. t.) To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property.

(n.) An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.

(n.) A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents.

(n.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum.

(n.) A Polander.