| dock | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination. |
| | noun (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. |
| | noun (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse. |
| | noun (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide. |
| | noun (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock. |
| | noun (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands. |
| | verb (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc. |
| block | noun (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor. |
| | noun (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each. |
| | noun (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat. |
| | noun (n.) In Australia, one of the large lots into which public land, when opened to settlers, is divided by the government surveyors. |
| | noun (n.) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket. |
| | noun (n.) A block hole. |
| | noun (n.) The popping crease. |
| | verb (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. |
| | verb (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. |
| | verb (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat. |
| | verb (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops. |
| | verb (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. |
| | verb (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles. |
| | verb (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept. |
| | verb (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way. |
| | verb (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work. |
| | verb (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high. |
| | verb (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt. |
| | verb (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below. |
| chock | noun (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it. |
| | noun (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An encounter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity. |
| | adverb (adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. |
| | verb (v. t.) To encounter. |
| clock | noun (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. |
| | noun (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes. |
| | noun (n.) The striking of a clock. |
| | noun (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. |
| | noun (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius). |
| | verb (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck. |
| cock | noun (n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls. |
| | noun (n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. |
| | noun (n.) A chief man; a leader or master. |
| | noun (n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. |
| | noun (n.) A faucet or valve. |
| | noun (n.) The style of gnomon of a dial. |
| | noun (n.) The indicator of a balance. |
| | noun (n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. |
| | noun (n.) The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock. |
| | noun (n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow. |
| | noun (n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm. |
| | noun (n.) A small concial pile of hay. |
| | noun (n.) A small boat. |
| | noun (n.) A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths. |
| | verb (v. t.) To set erect; to turn up. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim. |
| | verb (v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner. |
| | verb (v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation. |
| | verb (v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing. |
| | verb (v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing. |
| | verb (v. t.) To put into cocks or heaps, as hay. |
| crock | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) A low stool. |
| | noun (n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. |
| | verb (v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give off crock or smut. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. |
| flock | noun (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. |
| | noun (n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. |
| | noun (n.) A lock of wool or hair. |
| | noun (n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture. |
| | verb (v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds. |
| | verb (v. t.) To flock to; to crowd. |
| | verb (v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock. |
| | (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. |
| frock | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | verb (v. t.) To clothe in a frock. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. |
| shade | noun (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light. |
| | noun (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. |
| | noun (n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. |
| | noun (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade. |
| | noun (n.) Shadow. |
| | noun (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. |
| | noun (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. |
| | noun (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. |
| | noun (n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. |
| | noun (n.) To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To obscure; to dim the brightness of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color. |
| | verb (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. |
| shadow | noun (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1. |
| | noun (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. |
| | noun (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. |
| | noun (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. |
| | noun (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. |
| | noun (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. |
| | noun (n.) A small degree; a shade. |
| | noun (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. |
| | noun (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen. |
| | noun (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. |
| | noun (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. |
| | noun (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. |
| | noun (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. |
| | noun (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. |
| shack | noun (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. |
| | noun (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage. |
| | noun (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. |
| | verb (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. |
| | verb (v. i.) A hut; a shanty; a cabin. |
| shackle | noun (n.) Stubble. |
| | noun (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. |
| | noun (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament. |
| | noun (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis. |
| | noun (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. |
| | verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber. |
| | verb (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars. |
| shaft | noun (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. |
| | noun (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. |
| | noun (n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. |
| | noun (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. |
| | noun (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather. |
| | noun (n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. |
| | noun (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole. |
| | noun (n.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. |
| | noun (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. |
| | noun (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. |
| | noun (n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. |
| | noun (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird. |
| | noun (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. |
| | noun (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace. |
| shagreen | noun (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes. |
| | noun (n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Shagreened |
| | verb (v. t.) To chagrin. |
| shake | noun (n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. |
| | noun (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. |
| | noun (n.) A fissure in rock or earth. |
| | noun (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. |
| | noun (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. |
| | noun (n.) A shook of staves and headings. |
| | noun (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. |
| | verb (v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. |
| | verb (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. |
| | verb (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. |
| | verb (v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. |
| | () obs. p. p. of Shake. |
| shipwreck | noun (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves. |
| | noun (n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss. |
| | verb (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. |
| shock | noun (n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook. |
| | noun (n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. |
| | noun (n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset. |
| | noun (n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event. |
| | noun (n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like. |
| | noun (n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body. |
| | noun (n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog. |
| | noun (n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair. |
| | adjective (a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair. |
| | verb (v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks. |
| | verb (v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence. |
| | verb (v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates. |
| | verb (v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter. |
| | verb (v. t.) To subject to the action of an electrical discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression or commotion of the nervous system. |
| shuck | noun (n.) A shock of grain. |
| | noun (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut. |
| | noun (n.) The shell of an oyster or clam. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. |
