| truck | noun (n.) Exchange of commodities; barter. |
| | noun (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. |
| | noun (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. |
| | verb (v. i.) A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage. |
| | verb (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. |
| | verb (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels. |
| | verb (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. |
| | verb (v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes. |
| | verb (v. i.) A freight car. |
| | verb (v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies. |
| | verb (v. t.) To transport on a truck or trucks. |
| | verb (v. t.) To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. |
| | verb (v. i.) To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. |
| buck | noun (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. |
| | noun (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. |
| | noun (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits. |
| | noun (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. |
| | noun (n.) A male Indian or negro. |
| | noun (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck. |
| | noun (n.) The beech tree. |
| | verb (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water. |
| | verb (v. t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores. |
| | verb (v. i.) To copulate, as bucks and does. |
| | verb (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule. |
| | verb (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees. |
| | verb (v. t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. |
| chuck | noun (n.) The chuck or call of a hen. |
| | noun (n.) A sudden, small noise. |
| | noun (n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick. |
| | noun (n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin. |
| | noun (n.) A short throw; a toss. |
| | noun (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon. |
| | noun (n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. |
| | noun (n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones. |
| | noun (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck. |
| | verb (v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh. |
| | verb (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. |
| | verb (v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. |
| duck | noun (n.) A pet; a darling. |
| | noun (n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing. |
| | noun (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. |
| | verb (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. |
| | verb (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip. |
| | verb (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. |
| | verb (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae. |
| | verb (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. |
| pluck | noun (n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. |
| | noun (n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. |
| | noun (n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. |
| | noun (n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pull; to draw. |
| | verb (v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. |
| | verb (v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown. |
| | verb (v. t.) The lyrie. |
| 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. |
| suck | noun (n.) The act of drawing with the mouth. |
| | noun (n.) That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast. |
| | noun (n.) A small draught. |
| | noun (n.) Juice; succulence. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw or drain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. |
| | verb (v. i.) To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. |
| | verb (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking. |
| | verb (v. i.) To draw in; to imbibe; to partake. |
| tuck | noun (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier. |
| | noun (n.) The beat of a drum. |
| | noun (n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait. |
| | noun (n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net. |
| | noun (n.) A pull; a lugging. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern. |
| | noun (n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress. |
| | verb (v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket. |
| | verb (v. t.) To full, as cloth. |
| | verb (v. i.) To contract; to draw together. |
| rack | noun (n.) Same as Arrack. |
| | noun (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
| | noun (n.) A wreck; destruction. |
| | noun (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. |
| | noun (n.) A fast amble. |
| | adjective (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. |
| | adjective (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons. |
| | adjective (a.) An instrument for bending a bow. |
| | adjective (a.) A grate on which bacon is laid. |
| | adjective (a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
| | adjective (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc. |
| | adjective (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot. |
| | adjective (a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. |
| | adjective (a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. |
| | adjective (a.) A distaff. |
| | adjective (a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. |
| | adjective (a.) That which is extorted; exaction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. |
| | verb (v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse. |
| | verb (v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. |
| | verb (v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints. |
| | verb (v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
| rank | noun (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. |
| | noun (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). |
| | noun (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. |
| | noun (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings. |
| | noun (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank. |
| | noun (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank. |
| | superlative (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. |
| | superlative (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. |
| | superlative (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. |
| | superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. |
| | superlative (superl.) Strong to the taste. |
| | superlative (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite. |
| | adverb (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line. |
| | verb (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation. |
| raskolnik | noun (n.) One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. |
| | noun (n.) The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church. The Raskolniki embrace many sects, whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions, habits, and customs. The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translation of the religious books. The dissenters, who have been continually persecuted, are believed to number about 20,000,000, although the Holy Synod officially puts the number at about 2,000,000. They are officially divided into three groups according to the degree of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances, as follows: I. "Most obnoxious." the Judaizers; the Molokane, who refuse to recognize civil authority or to take oaths; the Dukhobortsy, or Dukhobors, who are communistic, marry without ceremony, and believe that Christ was human, but that his soul reappears at intervals in living men; the Khlysty, who countenance anthropolatory, are ascetics, practice continual self-flagellation, and reject marriage; the Skoptsy, who practice castration; and a section of the Bezpopovtsy, or priestless sect, which disbelieve in prayers for the Czar and in marriage. II. "Obnoxious:" the Bezpopovtsy, who pray for the Czar and recognize marriage. III. "Least obnoxious:" the Popovtsy, who dissent from the orthodox church in minor points only. |
| remark | noun (n.) To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out. |
| | noun (n.) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker. |
| | noun (n.) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause; as, he remarked that it was time to go. |
| | noun (n.) Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation. |
| | noun (n.) The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a remark or remarks; to comment. |
| | () A small design etched on the margin of a plate and supposed to be removed after the earliest proofs have been taken; also, any feature distinguishing a particular stage of the plate. |
| | () A print or proof so distinguished; -- commonly called a Remarque proof. |
| rock | noun (n.) See Roc. |
| | noun (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. |
| | noun (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone. |
| | noun (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
| | noun (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
| | noun (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
| | verb (v. t.) 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. |
| | verb (v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter. |
| | verb (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair. |
| rook | noun (n.) Mist; fog. See Roke. |
| | noun (n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle. |
| | noun (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species. |
| | noun (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. |
| | verb (v. i.) To squat; to ruck. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating. |
