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n. [ See Baxter. ] A baker. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uneven; ridgy. [ R. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. “Blockish Ajax.” Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. “A bookish man.” Addison. “Bookish skill.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Book"ish*ly, adv. -- Book"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Brack salt water. ] Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beastly; brutal. [ Obs. ] Bale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dandified; foppish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat dank. -- Dank"ish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

In a dark and dankish vault at home. Shak. [1913 Webster]

a. Somewhat dark; dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat dusky. “ Duskish smoke.” Spenser. -- Dusk"ish*ly, adv. -- Dusk"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like, or pertaining to, the Franks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope.

2. rapidly changing and unpredictable; as, freakish weather. [ PJC ]

3. markedly abnormal.
Syn. -- freaky. [ PJC ]

-- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. marked strangeness or abnormality.
Syn. -- abnormality. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

ety>[ After Benjamin B. Hotchkiss (1826-85), American inventor. ] A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It is made in France. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Jap. jin man + riki power + sha carriage. ] A small, two-wheeled, hooded vehicle drawn by one or more men. [ Japan ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ka`kistos worst + kratei^n to rule. ] Government by the worst men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. kies gravel, pyrites. ] (Min.) A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. ] the third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December. [ Also spelled Chislev. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Per. qismat. ] Destiny; fate. [ Written also kismat. ] [ Oriental ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Kissed p. pr. & vb. n. Kissing. ] [ OE. kissen, cussen, AS. cyssan, fr. coss a kiss; of uncertain origin; akin to D. kus, G. kuss, Icel. koss. ] 1. To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack,
That at the parting all the church echoed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love, respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To meet; to come in contact; to touch fondly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rose, rose and clematis,
Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [ Obs or Prov. End. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. kiss, derived under the influence of the verb from the older form coss, AS. coss. See Kiss, v. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect, etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Last with a kiss, she took a long farewell. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dear as remembered kisses after death. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small piece of confectionery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who kisses. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the face or mouth. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

. (Zool.) Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip or other parts of the human body, causing painful sores, as the cone-nose (Conorhinus sanguisuga). [ U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A cousin sufficiently well acquainted to be greeted with a kiss; a type of kissing kin. [ PJC ]

n. (Cookery) The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Infectious mononucleosis; -- so called because often spread by kissing. [ PJC ]

. Any relative more distant than the immediate family, sufficiently well acquainted to be greeted with a kiss, such as a kissing cousin. [ PJC ]

pos>n. Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.

One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and fluttering and now faded and soiled. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. An annual (Polygonum orientale) with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; it is native to Southeastern Asia and Australia, and naturalized in North America.
Syn. -- prince's-feather, prince's feather, princess feather, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Ar. gist. ] A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chest. ] A chest; hence, a coffin. [ Scot. & Prov. End. ] Jamieson. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ W. cist-faen. ] (Archaeol.) A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Trickish; artful. [ Obs. ] -- Knack"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]

n. [ From Lamarck, a distinguished French naturalist. ] (Biol.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs. It is a discredited theory, not believed by modern biologists. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Inclined to be lazy. Marston. -- Lusk"ish*ly, adv. -Lusk"ish*ness, n. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A marquis. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A marchioness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Orig., maggoty. See Mawk. ] 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting. [ 1913 Webster ]

So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Weakly sentimental; maudlin. [ PJC ]

adv. In a mawkish way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mock; counterfeit; sham. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude. -- Monk"ish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]