| blanket | adjective (a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse. |
| | adjective (a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. |
| | adjective (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with a blanket. |
| | verb (v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. |
| bracket | noun (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office. |
| | noun (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles. |
| | noun (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support. |
| | noun (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage. |
| | noun (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet. |
| | noun (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. |
| | noun (n.) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shoot so as to establish a bracket for (an object). |
| bucket | noun (n.) A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. |
| | noun (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc. |
| | noun (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel. |
| | noun (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets; as, to bucket water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pour over from a bucket; to drench. |
| | verb (v. t.) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body. |
| casket | noun (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of burial case. |
| | noun (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed |
| | noun (n.) The body. |
| | noun (n.) The tomb. |
| | noun (n.) A book of selections. |
| | noun (n.) A gasket. See Gasket. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket. |
| cricket | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) A low stool. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | verb (v. i.) To play at cricket. |
| docket | noun (n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest. |
| | noun (n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label. |
| | noun (n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court. |
| | noun (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks. |
| | noun (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed. |
| | verb (v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods. |
| jacket | noun (n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts. |
| | noun (n.) An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc. |
| | noun (n.) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired. |
| | noun (n.) A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket. |
| | verb (v. t.) To thrash; to beat. |
| market | noun (n.) A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week. |
| | noun (n.) A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold. |
| | noun (n.) An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods. |
| | noun (n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market. |
| | noun (n.) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth. |
| | noun (n.) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. |
| | verb (v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods. |
| | verb (v. t.) To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops. |
| packet | noun (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. |
| | noun (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. |
| | verb (v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. |
| picket | noun (n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. |
| | noun (n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences. |
| | noun (n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. |
| | noun (n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. |
| | noun (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. |
| | noun (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. |
| | verb (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. |
| pocket | noun (n.) A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. |
| | noun (n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. |
| | noun (n.) A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. |
| | noun (n.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. |
| | noun (n.) A hole containing water. |
| | noun (n.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Pouch. |
| | noun (n.) Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; |
| | noun (n.) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A bight on a lee shore. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take clandestinely or fraudulently. |
| racket | noun (n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. |
| | noun (n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. |
| | noun (n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. |
| | noun (n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport. |
| | noun (n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation. |
| | noun (n.) A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket. |
| | verb (v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. |
| | verb (v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation. |
| rocket | noun (n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. |
| | noun (n.) Damewort. |
| | noun (n.) Rocket larkspur. See below. |
| | noun (n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display. |
| | noun (n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective. |
