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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 ]

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 ]

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

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

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

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

a. Excessively bookish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region. “Her peakish spring.” Drayton. “His peakish dialect.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having peaks; peaked. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to eat; hungry. [ Colloq. ] “When shall I feel peckish again?” Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat pink. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of pranks; frolicsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Puck. ] Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. “Puckish freaks.” J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dissolute; lewd; debauched. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rakish manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. 1. Somewhat sick or diseased. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. Like the skunk, especially in odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Showy; well-dresed; fine. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a stock; stupid; blockish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; four times + E. hexahedron. ] (Crystallog.) A tetrahexahedron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat thick. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

pr. a. Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks. -- n. The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey. -- Turk"ish*ly, adv. -- Turk"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

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[ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat weak; rather weak. [ 1913 Webster ]