| 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. |
| 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. |
| muck | noun (n.) Dung in a moist state; manure. |
| | noun (n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps. |
| | noun (n.) Anything filthy or vile. |
| | noun (n.) Money; -- in contempt. |
| | adjective (a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork. |
| | verb (v. t.) To manure with muck. |
| | () abbreviation of Amuck. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| shatter | noun (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters. |
| | verb (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. |
| | verb (v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered. |
| | verb (v. t.) To scatter about. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
