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n. [ OE. Cf. Coax. ] A simpleton; a gull; a dupe. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Dried cow dung used as fuel.[ Prov. Eng. ] Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After Sir William Crookes, English chemist, who first described it. ] (Physics) The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Phys.) A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being a duke; also, the personality of a duke. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Prob. fr. F. Jacques, the proper name. See 2d Jack. ] A privy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

def>A pseudonym used to designate the descendants of two sisters, the “Jukes” sisters, whose husbands were sons of a backwoodsman of Dutch descent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1, 308, 000 in 75 years. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Kaiser. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cēselib, or c&ymacr_;slyb, milk curdled; cf. G. käselab, käselippe. See Cheese, and cf.Cheeselep. ] The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

imp. of Cast. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Castrel. ] (Zool.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is often used in contempt, as of a mean kind of hawk. “Kites and kestrels have a resemblance with hawks.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the shore of a lake.
Syn. -- lakeside. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the shore of a lake.
Syn. -- lakeshore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient, with implication of inferiority to the more usual object or means. James Mill. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Mr. Parkes, the inventor. ] A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The staff, or shaft, of a pike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Rakehell, Ragabash. ] A vile, dissolute wretch. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Rake the instrument + stale a handle. ] The handle of a rake. [ 1913 Webster ]

That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a pen, a sacred inclosure, a shrine. ] (Arch.) A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. [ Written also Shakespearian, Shakspearean, Shakspearian, Shaksperean, Shaksperian.etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paleon.) An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which resembles that of a coiled snake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Spokesmen [ Speak, spoke + man. ] One who speaks for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall be thy spokesman unto the people. Ex. iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Strokesman (Rowing) The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]