Name Report For First Name STOK:
STOK
First name STOK's origin is English. STOK means "from the tree stump". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with STOK below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of stok.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with STOK and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with STOK - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming STOK
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES STOK AS A WHOLE:
stokkard stokeNAMES RHYMING WITH STOK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (tok) - Names That Ends with tok:
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ok) - Names That Ends with ok:
kiwidinok enok pajackok adok brook askook brok rook ullok whytlok westbrook seabrook laibrook erzsok holbrook mariadok marrok tzadok zadokNAMES RHYMING WITH STOK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (sto) - Names That Begins with sto:
stoc stock stockard stockhard stockhart stockley stockwell stocleah stocwiella stod stodd stoddard stoffel stoner stoney storm storme stormie stormy stosh stoweRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (st) - Names That Begins with st:
stacey stacie stacy stacyann staerling stafford stamfo stamford stamitos stan stanb stanbeny stanburh stanbury stanciyf stancliff stanclyf standa standish stanedisc stanfeld stanfield stanford stanhop stanhope stanislav stanley stanly stanton stantu stantun stanway stanweg stanwi stanwic stanwick stanwik stanwode stanwood stanwyk star starbuck starla starlene starling starls starr stasia staunton stayton steadman stearc stearn steathford stedeman stedman steele stefan stefana stefania stefanie stefano stefford stefn stefon stein steiner steise stela stem step stepan stephan stephana stephania stephanie stephen stephenie stephensonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH STOK:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'k':
sadeek sadek sahak sebak sedgewick sedgewik selik selk shaddock shareek shattuck sherlock sobk sparkEnglish Words Rhyming STOK
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES STOK AS A WHOLE:
| stokehole | noun (n.) The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand. |
| stokey | adjective (a.) Close; sultry. |
| stokehold | noun (n.) The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STOK (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tok) - English Words That Ends with tok:
| komtok | noun (n.) An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens), belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STOK (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (sto) - Words That Begins with sto:
| stoat | noun (n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels. |
| stocah | noun (n.) A menial attendant. |
| stoccade | noun (n. & v.) See Stockade. |
| stoccado | noun (n.) A stab; a thrust with a rapier. |
| stochastic | adjective (a.) Conjectural; able to conjecture. |
| stock | noun (n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk. |
| noun (n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted. | |
| noun (n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense. | |
| noun (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached. | |
| noun (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage. | |
| noun (n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace. | |
| noun (n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock. | |
| noun (n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor. | |
| noun (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself. | |
| noun (n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock. | |
| noun (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil. | |
| noun (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family. | |
| noun (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Stock account, below. | |
| noun (n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions. | |
| noun (n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock. | |
| noun (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank. | |
| noun (n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado. | |
| noun (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings). | |
| noun (n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock. | |
| noun (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment. | |
| noun (n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building. | |
| noun (n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings. | |
| noun (n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua). | |
| noun (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone. | |
| noun (n.) A race or variety in a species. | |
| noun (n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The beater of a fulling mill. | |
| noun (n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Raw material; that out of which something is manufactured; as, paper stock. | |
| noun (n.) A plain soap which is made into toilet soap by adding perfumery, coloring matter, etc. | |
| adjective (a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass. | |
| verb (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put in the stocks. |
| stocking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stock |
| noun (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. | |
| noun (n.) Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking; as: (a) A broad ring of color, differing from the general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse. (b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress in GBs. |
| stockading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stockade |
| stockbroker | noun (n.) A broker who deals in stocks. |
| stockdove | noun (n.) A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees. |
| stocker | noun (n.) One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc. |
| stockfish | noun (n.) Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted. |
| noun (n.) Young fresh cod. |
| stockholder | noun (n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company. |
| stockinet | noun (n.) An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made. |
| stockinger | noun (n.) A stocking weaver. |
| stockish | adjective (a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish. |
| stockjobber | noun (n.) One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers. |
| stockjobbing | noun (n.) The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber. |
| stockman | noun (n.) A herdsman; a ranchman; one owning, or having charge of, herds of live stock. |
| stockwork | noun (n.) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. |
| noun (n.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories. |
| stocky | adjective (a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. |
| adjective (a.) Headstrong. |
| stodgy | adjective (a.) Wet. |
| stoechiology | noun (n.) Alt. of Stoechiometry |
| stoechiometry | noun (n.) See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc. |
| stoic | noun (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed. |
| noun (n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain. | |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Stoical |
| stoical | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines. |
| noun (n.) Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain. |
| stoichiological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to stoichiology. |
| stoichiology | noun (n.) That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues. |
| noun (n.) The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought. | |
| noun (n.) The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art. |
| stoichiometric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Stoichiometrical |
| stoichiometrical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to stoichiometry; employed in, or obtained by, stoichiometry. |
| stoichiometry | noun (n.) The art or process of calculating the atomic proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of chemical elements and their compounds. |
| stoicism | noun (n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics. |
| noun (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness. |
| stoicity | noun (n.) Stoicism. |
| stola | noun (n.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women. |
| stole | noun (n.) A stolon. |
| noun (n.) A long, loose garment reaching to the feet. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions. | |
| (imp.) of Steal | |
| () imp. of Steal. |
| stoled | adjective (a.) Having or wearing a stole. |
| stolid | adjective (a.) Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish. |
| stolidity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. |
| stolidness | noun (n.) Same as Stolidity. |
| stolon | noun (n.) A trailing branch which is disposed to take root at the end or at the joints; a stole. |
| noun (n.) An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa, Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under Scyphistoma. |
| stoloniferous | adjective (a.) Producing stolons; putting forth suckers. |
| stoma | noun (n.) One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes. |
| noun (n.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells. | |
| noun (n.) The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium. | |
| noun (n.) A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b). |
| stomach | noun (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric. |
| noun (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. | |
| noun (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. | |
| noun (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. | |
| noun (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be angry. |
| stomaching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stomach |
| noun (n.) Resentment. |
| stomachal | noun (n.) A stomachic. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. | |
| adjective (a.) Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial. |
| stomacher | noun (n.) One who stomachs. |
| noun (n.) An ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated. |
| stomachful | adjective (a.) Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. |
| stomachic | noun (n.) A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Stomachical |
| stomachical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. |
| adjective (a.) Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial. |
| stomachless | adjective (a.) Being without a stomach. |
| adjective (a.) Having no appetite. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH STOK:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'k':
| sack | noun (n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. |
| noun (n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch. | |
| noun (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. | |
| noun (n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. | |
| noun (n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam. | |
| noun (n.) See 2d Sac, 2. | |
| noun (n.) Bed. | |
| noun (n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. | |
| verb (v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage. |
| saddleback | noun (n.) Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top. |
| noun (n.) The harp seal. | |
| noun (n.) The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus). | |
| noun (n.) The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back. | |
| adjective (a.) Same as Saddle-backed. |
| salework | noun (n.) Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly. |
| sanjak | noun (n.) A district or a subvision of a vilayet. |
| sark | noun (n.) A shirt. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards. |
| sarlyk | noun (n.) The yak. |
| sawbuck | noun (n.) A sawhorse. |
| scaleback | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda. |
| scheik | noun (n.) See Sheik. |
| schoolbook | noun (n.) A book used in schools for learning lessons. |
| scink | noun (n.) A skink. |
| noun (n.) A slunk calf. |
| scrapbook | noun (n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept. |
| scratchback | noun (n.) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons. |
| scratchwork | noun (n.) See Scratch coat. |
| screak | noun (n.) A creaking; a screech; a shriek. |
| verb (v.) To utter suddenly a sharp, shrill sound; to screech; to creak, as a door or wheel. |
| seak | noun (n.) Soap prepared for use in milling cloth. |
| seamark | noun (n.) Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. |
| seasick | adjective (a.) Affected with seasickness. |
| seck | adjective (a.) Barren; unprofitable. See Rent seck, under Rent. |
| seek | adjective (a.) Sick. |
| verb (v. t.) To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. | |
| verb (v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech. | |
| verb (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life. | |
| verb (v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery. |
| setback | noun (n.) Offset, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy. | |
| noun (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse. |
| shabrack | noun (n.) The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse. |
| 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. |
| shacklock | noun (n.) A sort of shackle. |
| shaddock | noun (n.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous. |
| shagbark | noun (n.) A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. |
| noun (n.) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod. |
| shaik | noun (n.) See Sheik. |
| shakefork | noun (n.) A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork. |
| shamrock | noun (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity. |
| shank | noun (n.) See Chank. |
| verb (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. | |
| verb (v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. | |
| verb (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. | |
| verb (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. | |
| verb (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. | |
| verb (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button. | |
| verb (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. | |
| verb (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. | |
| verb (v.) The body of a type. | |
| verb (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. | |
| verb (v.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks. | |
| verb (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. |
| sharock | noun (n.) An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents. |
| sheepback | noun (n.) A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep. -- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually in the plural. |
| sheephook | noun (n.) A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. |
| sheeprack | noun (n.) The starling. |
| sheepshank | noun (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened. |
| sheik | noun (n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. |
| shelduck | noun (n.) The sheldrake. |
| shellbark | noun (n.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. |
| shellwork | noun (n.) Work composed of shells, or adorned with them. |
| sheriffwick | noun (n.) The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty. |
| 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. |
| shirk | noun (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor. |
| verb (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty. | |
| verb (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark. | |
| verb (v. i.) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. |
| shittlecock | noun (n.) A shuttlecock. |
| 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. |
| shoeblack | noun (n.) One who polishes shoes. |
| shook | noun (n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form. |
| noun (n.) A set of boards for a sugar box. | |
| noun (n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook. | |
| (imp.) of Shake | |
| () of Shake | |
| () imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake. |
| shopbook | noun (n.) A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts. |
| shredcook | noun (n.) The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. |
| shriek | noun (n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like. |
| verb (v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish. | |
| verb (v. t.) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks. |
| shrink | noun (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. |
| verb (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. | |
| verb (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. | |
| verb (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw. |
| 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. |
| shuttlecock | noun (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself. |
| verb (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. |
| shuttlecork | noun (n.) See Shuttlecock. |
| sick | noun (n.) Sickness. |
| superlative (superl.) Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. | |
| superlative (superl.) Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. | |
| superlative (superl.) Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall sick; to sicken. |
| sidewalk | noun (n.) A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. |
| siegework | noun (n.) A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted. |
| sik | adjective (a.) Alt. of Sike |
| silk | noun (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori. |
| noun (n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material. | |
| noun (n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. |
| sillock | noun (n.) The pollock, or coalfish. |
| silverback | noun (n.) The knot. |
| singlestick | noun (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword. |
| noun (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling. |
| sink | noun (n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes. |
| noun (n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen. | |
| noun (n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole. | |
| noun (n.) The lowest part of a natural hollow or closed basin whence the water of one or more streams escapes by evaporation; as, the sink of the Humboldt River. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. | |
| verb (v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. | |
| verb (v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. | |
| verb (v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship. | |
| verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste. | |
| verb (v. t.) To conseal and appropriate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt. |
| skeelduck | noun (n.) Alt. of Skeelgoose |
| sketchbook | noun (n.) A book of sketches or for sketches. |
| skimback | noun (n.) The quillback. |
| skink | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents. |
| noun (n.) Drink; also, pottage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink. | |
| verb (v. i.) To serve or draw liquor. |
| skipjack | noun (n.) An upstart. |
| noun (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle. | |
| noun (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section. |
| skirlcock | noun (n.) The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note. |
| skulk | noun (n.) A number of foxes together. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Skulker | |
| verb (v. i.) To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. |
| skunk | noun (n.) Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense. |
| verb (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king. |
| skylark | noun (n.) A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark. |
| slack | noun (n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. |
| noun (n.) A valley, or small, shallow dell. | |
| noun (n.) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. | |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Slacken | |
| superlative (superl.) Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope. | |
| superlative (superl.) Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. | |
| superlative (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. | |
| adverb (adv.) Slackly; as, slack dried hops. | |
| verb (v. t.) Alt. of Slacken |
| slapjack | noun (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake. |
| sleek | noun (n.) That which makes smooth; varnish. |
| noun (n.) A slick. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. | |
| superlative (superl.) Not rough or harsh. | |
| adverb (adv.) With ease and dexterity. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over. |
| slick | noun (n.) See Schlich. |
| noun (n.) A wide paring chisel. | |
| noun (n.) A slick, or smooth and slippery, surface or place; a sleek. | |
| adjective (a.) Sleek; smooth. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make sleek or smoth. |
| slik | adjective (a.) Such. |
| slink | noun (n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time. |
| noun (n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak. | |
| adjective (a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. | |
| adjective (a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts. | |
| adjective (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf. | |
| adjective (a.) Thin; lean. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf. |
| slopwork | noun (n.) The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. |
| slowback | noun (n.) A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. |
| smack | noun (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade. |
| noun (n.) To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste. | |
| noun (n.) To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality. | |
| noun (n.) To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss. | |
| noun (n.) To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything. | |
| verb (v. i.) Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. | |
| verb (v. i.) A small quantity; a taste. | |
| verb (v. i.) A loud kiss; a buss. | |
| verb (v. i.) A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip. | |
| verb (v. i.) A quick, smart blow; a slap. | |
| adverb (adv.) As if with a smack or slap. | |
| verb (v. t.) To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss. | |
| verb (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. |
| smerk | noun (n. & v.) See Smirk. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Smerky |
| smirk | noun (n.) A forced or affected smile; a simper. |
| adjective (a.) Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering. | |
| verb (v. i.) To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper. |
| smock | noun (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. |
| noun (n.) A blouse; a smoock frock. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. | |
| verb (v. t.) To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. |
| smokejack | noun (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney. |
| smokestack | noun (n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc. |
| snakeneck | noun (n.) The snakebird, 1. |
| snapsack | noun (n.) A knapsack. |
| snattock | noun (n.) A chip; a alice. |
| sneak | noun (n.) A mean, sneaking fellow. |
| noun (n.) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub. | |
| verb (v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch. |
| sneck | noun (n.) A door latch. |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. |
| snick | noun (n.) A small cut or mark. |
| noun (n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional. | |
| noun (n.) A knot or irregularity in yarn. | |
| noun (n.) A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast. | |
| noun (n. & v. t.) See Sneck. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hit (a ball) lightly. |
| snippack | noun (n.) The common snipe. |
| snook | noun (n.) A large perchlike marine food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also ravallia, and robalo. |
| noun (n.) The cobia. | |
| noun (n.) The garfish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To lurk; to lie in ambush. |
| snowfleck | noun (n.) See Snowbird, 1. |
| sock | noun (n.) A plowshare. |
| noun (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. | |
| noun (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg. | |
| noun (n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. |
| souslik | noun (n.) See Suslik. |
| spank | noun (n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly. |
| sparhawk | noun (n.) The sparrow hawk. |
| spark | noun (n.) A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. |
| noun (n.) A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle. | |
| noun (n.) That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle. | |
| noun (n.) A brisk, showy, gay man. | |
| noun (n.) A lover; a gallant; a beau. | |
| verb (v. i.) To sparkle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play the spark, beau, or lover. | |
| verb (v. i.) To produce, or give off, sparks, as a dynamo at the commutator when revolving under the collecting brushes. |
| spatchcock | noun (n.) See Spitchcock. |
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