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n. [ AS. broc, fr. W. broch; akin to Ir. & Gael. broc, Corn. & Armor. broch; cf. Ir. & Gael. breac speckled. ] (Zool.) A badger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or with pretense of chasing thence the brock. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Brocket. ] (Zool.) A brocket. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . [ Trans. of G. Brockengespenst. ] A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. broket, F. broquart fallow deer a year old, fr. the same root as E. broach, meaning point (hence tine of a horn). ] 1. (Zool.) A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, Coassus rufus, and Coassus auritus). [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Perh. from AS. burg, burh, hill + -ock. ] A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a bird of the Andes (Rupicola peruviana) similar to Rupicola rupicola.
Syn. -- Rupicola peruviana. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. tropical bird of Northern South America (Rupicola rupicola), the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest.
Syn. -- cock of the rock, Rupicola rupicola. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

See congreve and cf. Rocket. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit covered. ] The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A low stool. “I . . . seated her upon a little crock.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka; but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen vessel, jar. Cf. Cruet. ] Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who is worn out with age or illness. [ PJC ]

2. an old person who complains frequently about illness, especially imaginary ailments. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crocked p. pr. & vb. n. Crocking. ] To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To give off crock or smut. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. nonsense; balderdash; humbug; -- usually used in the phrase a crock. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

adj. drunk, inebriated. Opposite of sober. [ slang ]
Syn. -- blotto, fuddled, loaded, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A potter. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Crock an earthen vessel. ] Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. croquet, F. crochet, dim. of croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Crotchet. ] 1. (Arch.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. [ 1913 Webster ]

The antlers and the crockets. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Arch.) Ornamented with crockets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Crock soot. ] Smutty. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divest of the frock, i. e. to deprive (a priest, minister, etc.) of official ecclesiastical authority; -- of church officials.
Syn. -- unfrock. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. To unfrock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A water course. [ Prov. Eng. ]

n. [ Pref. en- + rock. ] A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. froc a monk's cowl, coat, garment, LL. frocus, froccus, flocus, floccus, fr. L. floccus a flock of wool; hence orig., a flocky cloth or garment; cf. L. flaccus flabby, E. flaccid. ] 1. A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually double-breasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. --
Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To clothe in a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clothed in a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Prov. F. chicarou. ] (Zool.) A garfish. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. (Geol.) See Grit, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lark the bird. ] The lark. [ Old Eng. & Scot. ] [ Written also lavrock. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Laverock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lark. ] A lark. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. pl. (Geol.) The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and slates of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. pearruc, pearroc. See Park. ] A croft, or small field; a paddock. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } 1. (Mining) Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a discovery, especially after an exploratory process, which yields a profit or sought-after benefit; -- used especially in the phrase “to hit pay dirt”. [ PJC ]

n. See Puddock, and Parrock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Rack to stretch, strain + a + rock. ] A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono-nitrobenzene. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A kind of dynamite used in blasting. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Roc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. rocke; akin to D. rok, rokken, G. rocken, OHG. roccho, Dan. rok, Icel. rokkr. Cf. Rocket a firework. ] A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread
By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain,
That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS. rocc. ] 1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. 2 Sam. xxii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) The striped bass. See under Bass. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is frequently used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built, rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rock alum. [ Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a rock. ] Same as Roche alum. --
Rock barnacle (Zool.), a barnacle (Balanus balanoides) very abundant on rocks washed by tides. --
Rock bass. (Zool.) (a) The stripped bass. See under Bass. (b) The goggle-eye. (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass. --
Rock builder (Zool.), any species of animal whose remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the corals and Foraminifera. --
Rock butter (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate. --
Rock candy, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure sugar which are very hard, whence the name. --
Rock cavy. (Zool.) See Moco. --
Rock cod (Zool.) (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod found about rocks andledges. (b) A California rockfish. --
Rock cook. (Zool.) (a) A European wrasse (Centrolabrus exoletus). (b) A rockling. --
Rock cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture. --
Rock crab (Zool.), any one of several species of large crabs of the genus C, as the two species of the New England coast (Cancer irroratus and Cancer borealis). See Illust. under Cancer. --
Rock cress (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress kind found on rocks, as Arabis petraea, Arabis lyrata, etc. --
Rock crystal (Min.), limpid quartz. See Quartz, and under Crystal. --
Rock dove (Zool.), the rock pigeon; -- called also rock doo. --
Rock drill, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp., a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for drilling holes for blasting, etc. --
Rock duck (Zool.), the harlequin duck. --
Rock eel. (Zool.) See Gunnel. --
Rock goat (Zool.), a wild goat, or ibex. --
Rock hopper (Zool.), a penguin of the genus Catarractes. See under Penguin. --
Rock kangaroo. (Zool.) See Kangaroo, and Petrogale. --
Rock lobster (Zool.), any one of several species of large spinose lobsters of the genera Panulirus and Palinurus. They have no large claws. Called also spiny lobster, and sea crayfish. --
Rock meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence. --
Rock milk. (Min.) See Agaric mineral, under Agaric. --
Rock moss, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See Cudbear. --
Rock oil. See Petroleum. --
Rock parrakeet (Zool.), a small Australian parrakeet (Euphema petrophila), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish green. --
Rock pigeon (Zool.), the wild pigeon (Columba livia) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under Pigeon. --
Rock pipit. (Zool.) See the Note under Pipit. --
Rock plover. (Zool.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover. (b) The rock snipe. --
Rock ptarmigan (Zool.), an arctic American ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris), which in winter is white, with the tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black patches on the back. --
Rock rabbit (Zool.), the hyrax. See Cony, and Daman. --
Rock ruby (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet. --
Rock salt (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities. --
Rock seal (Zool.), the harbor seal. See Seal. --
Rock shell (Zool.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and allied genera. --
Rock snake (Zool.), any one of several large pythons; as, the royal rock snake (Python regia) of Africa, and the rock snake of India (Python molurus). The Australian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus Morelia. --
Rock snipe (Zool.), the purple sandpiper (Tringa maritima); -- called also rock bird, rock plover, winter snipe. --
Rock soap (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. --
Rock sparrow. (Zool.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of the genus Petronia, as Petronia stulla, of Europe. (b) A North American sparrow (Pucaea ruficeps). --
Rock tar, petroleum. --
Rock thrush (Zool.), any Old World thrush of the genus Monticola, or Petrocossyphus; as, the European rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis), and the blue rock thrush of India (Monticola cyaneus), in which the male is blue throughout. --
Rock tripe (Bot.), a kind of lichen (Umbilicaria Dillenii) growing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. --
Rock trout (Zool.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradae, native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also sea trout, boregat, bodieron, and starling. --
Rock warbler (Zool.), a small Australian singing bird (Origma rubricata) which frequents rocky ravines and water courses; -- called also cataract bird. --
Rock wren (Zool.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus Salpinctes, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rocked p. pr. & vb. n. Rocking. ] [ AS. roccian; akin to Dan. rokke to move, to snake; cf. Icel. rukkja to pull, move, G. rücken to move, push, pull. ] 1. To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. [ 1913 Webster ]

A rising earthquake rocked the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet. “Sleep rock thy brain.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Rock differs from shake, as denoting a slower, less violent, and more uniform motion, or larger movements. It differs from swing, which expresses a vibratory motion of something suspended. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rocking town
Supplants their footsteps. J. Philips . [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Probably from Rockaway beach, where it was used. ] Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side. [ 1913 Webster ]