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A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To beseech. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + weekly. ] Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n. A publication issued every two weeks. -- Bi"week"ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ceàce, ceòce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw. ] 1. The side of the face below the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cheek bone. [ Obs. ] Caucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef. --
Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone. --
Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. --
Cheek pouch (Zool.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food. --
Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block. --
Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest. --
Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth. --
Butment cheek. See under Butment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be impudent or saucy to. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
Syn. -- zygomatic bone, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a cheek; -- used in composition. “Rose-cheeked Adonis.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having no cheek. Opposite of cheeked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Act of cleeking; a clutch. [ Scot. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ pret. Claught pret. & p. p. Cleeked p. pr. & vb. n. Cleeking. ] [ ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch. ] [ Scot & Dial. Eng. ] 1. To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. Scott. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From cock + leek. ] A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes; -- called also cocky-leeky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cockaleekie. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , n. (Astron.) A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel. kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek. Cf. Crick, Crook. ] 1. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any turn or winding. [ 1913 Webster ]

The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The chub sucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Creek. (Ethnol.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. “The creeky shore.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. See Eke. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. faenum Graecum, lit., Greek hay: cf. F. fenugrec. Cf. Fennel. ] (Bot.) A plant (trigonella Fœnum Græcum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are “now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay.” J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake. [ PJC ]

2. Hence: Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric. [ wns=1 ] [ PJC ]

3. Hence: A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a dork. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

4. Hence: An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as, a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors; -- originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's, with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly. [ Informal ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Prob. fr. Icel. leika to play, play a trick on, with the prefix ge-; akin to AS. gelācan, Sw. leka to play, Dan. lege. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A jest or scoff; a trick or deception. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. Glicke ] An enticing look or glance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. glic, G. glück, fortune. See Luck. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [ Obs. ] Pepys. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Three of the same cards held in the same hand; -- hence, three of anything. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian. ] Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. [ 1913 Webster ]

Greek calends. See under Greek calends in the vocabulary. --
Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church. --
Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross. --
Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire. --
Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. Ure. --
Greek rose, the flower campion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatombæon (July-Aug.).
2. Metageitnion (Aug.-Sept.).
3. Boëdromion (Sept.-Oct.).
4. Pyanepsion (Oct.-Nov.).
5. Mæmacterion (Nov.-Dec.).
6. Poseideon (Dec.-Jan.).
7. Gamelion (Jan.-Feb.).
8. Anthesterion (Feb.-Mar.).
9. Elaphebolion (Mar.-Apr.).
10. Munychion (Apr.-May).
11. Thargelion (May-June).
12. Scirophorion (June-July). A fixed relation to the seasons was maintained by introducing an intercalary month, “the second Poseideon, ” at first in an inexact way, afterward in years 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 19 of the Metonic cycle. Dates were reckoned in Olympiads. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The Julian calendar, used in the Greek Church. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A female Greek. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. AS. Grēcisc. ] Peculiar to Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

or . A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; as, greeklike struggles.
Syn. -- grecian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game played by children, in which one child (who is “it”) covers his eyes for a short time while the other players hide, and then the one who is “it” tries to find the others. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ House + leek. ] (Bot.) A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (Sempervivum tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A trailing grass (Cynodon dactylon) native to Europe, now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in the Southern U. S. and India. Called also Bahama grass and Bermuda grass.
Syn. -- Bermuda grass, devil grass, Bahama grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass, Cynodon dactylon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. leác; akin to D. look, G. lauch, OHG. louh, Icel. laukr, Sw. lök, Dan lög. Cf. Garlic. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Allium (Allium Porrum), having broadly linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Meeker superl. Meekest. ] [ OE. mek, meoc; akin to Icel. mjūkr mild, soft, Sw. mjuk, Dan. myg, D. muik, Goth. mukamōdei gentleness. ] 1. Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now the man Moses was very meek. Num. xii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. “Her meek prayer.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming; humble. See Gentle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a meek manner. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being meek. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The middle of the week. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. occurring during the middle of the week; as, a midweekly prayer meeting.
Syn. -- midweek. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To seek for wrongly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a body of French painters (F. les néo-Grecs) of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce, prick, E. pique. Cf. Peak. ] To look surreptitiously, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]