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a. Awe-struck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Beaker. ] A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bickered p. pr. & vb. n. Bickering. ] [ OE. bikeren, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E. beak. ] 1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ streamlets ] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A skirmish; an encounter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bickers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A skirmishing. “Frays and bickerings.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Altercation; wrangling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Contention. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bigorne. See Bicorn. ] An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. same as expensive, but in an absolute sense; -- referring to items of a type which are all expensive, such as automobiles, refrigerators, or large-screen television sets. The roaring stock market led to an increase in the purchase of big-ticket items during the 1996 Christmas season. cheap
Syn. -- costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. blik tin. ] A tin dinner pail. [ Local, U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as he had no self-respect.
Syn. -- apple polisher, bootlick, fawner, groveller, truckler, ass-kisser, toady. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. genus of herbs of SW America having usually creamy florets followed by one-seeded fruits in a prominent bristly sheath.
Syn. -- genus Brickelia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A United States five-cent coin minted from 1913 to 1937 having an image of an American bison (“buffalo”) on its reverse, and an American Indian on the obverse. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, küken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. küchkein. See Cock the animal. ] 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. “Stella is no chicken.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a trifling sum of money.
Syn. -- small change. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear. [ slang ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the far western U.S. counterpart of the red squirrel.
Syn. -- Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy. [ Low, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) One who as has charge of the work of a companionship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cliquet the latch of a door. See 5th Click. ] 1. The knocker of a door. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A latch key. [ Eng. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a fast and rhythmic clicking sound, as of “click-clack”; as, the clickety-clack of the typewriters.
Syn. -- clickety-clack. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 379), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being “obviously within the commuting principle.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Min.) Niccolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play at cricket. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak. ] (Zool.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are Gryllus niger, Gryllus neglectus, and others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Balm cricket. See under Balm. --
Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler. --
Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool probably having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch. ] 1. A low stool. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plays at cricket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. or interj. [ Perh. a contr. of the dim. devilkins. ] The devil. [ A vulgar euphemism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To negotiate a dicker; to barter. [ U.S. ] “Ready to dicker. and to swap.” Cooper.

n. [ Also daker, dakir; akin to Icel. dekr, Dan. deger, G. decher; all prob. from LL. dacra, dacrum, the number ten, akin to L. decuria a division consisting of ten, fr. decem ten. See Ten. ] 1. The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A dicker of cowhides. Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

For peddling dicker, not for honest sales. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any small bird; as, adults talking to children sometimes call small birds dickeybirds. [ informal ]
Syn. -- dickybird. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. 1. 1. A false detachable shirt front or bosom. [ Also spelled dickie. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gentleman's shirt collar. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (a) A seat for the driver (In a carriage); -- called also dickey box or dickie seat. (b) A seat at the back for servants. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. One of various animals; specif.: (a) A donkey. (b) Any small bird; -- called also dickeybird or dickey bird. [ Colloq. ] (c) The hedge sparrow. [ Dial. Eng. ] (d) The haddock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Any object, usually a tool or other device, whose name is forgotten, or not known.
Syn. -- thingumbob, whatchamacallit, whachamacallit. [ PJC ]

n. a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To quicken; to make alive. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The mole cricket. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Flickered p. pr. & vb. n. Flickering. ] [ OE. flikeren, flekeren, to flutter, AS. flicerian, flicorian, cf. D. flikkeren to sparkle. √84. Cf. Flacker. ] 1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. [ 1913 Webster ]

And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shadows flicker to fro. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. Thoureau. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flickering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Flittermouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sycophant; a fawner; a toady. Cf. Bootlick. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gleek, n., 2, and Ir. & Gael. glic wise, cunning, crafty. ] An ogling look. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. carefully selected; as, a hand-picked jury; the company's president groomed his hand-picked successor. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Shocked; dismayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe. [ PJC ]

2. A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

3. a doohickey. [ informal ] [ PJC ]