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v. t. & i. Same as Anchylose. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Anchylosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Ankylostoma, var. of Agchylostoma, generic name of one genus of the parasitic nematodes. ] (Med.) A disease caused by the hookworm parasites of the genus Ancylostoma (especially Ancylostoma duodenale), and Necator americanus. Typically, infection in humans occurs in the small intestine. In the small intestine they suck the blood from the wall and, when present in large numbers, produce a severe anaemia. Called also miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, Egyptian chlorosis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

n. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + ky`anos blue. ] (Chem.) The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. economic independence as a national policy.
Syn. -- autarchy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Apt to balk; as, a balky horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with, or containing, bark. “The barky fingers of the elm.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bleak. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in order to protect the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offer investments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called because the promises made by some investment companies are as boundless or alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Bookish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Bushy. ] 1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Caused by boscage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

. See under Whisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Brackish. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [ Written also checquy, chequy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [ Slang. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. “A deep and choky voice.” Aytoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Hind. chauki watching, guard. ] 1. A station, as for collection of customs, for palanquin bearers, police, etc. [ India ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Specif., a prison or lockup; a jail. [ India, or Slang, Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Short and thick. [ U. S. ] Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. “Their strange clicky language.” The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cocket. ] Pert. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } [ Cf. Cock, fowl; Yellow. ] A pet name for any small bird. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder; a colicky baby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cookies /plu>. [ Cf. D. koek cake, dim. koekje; akin to G. kuchen, E. cake; or cf. OE. coket, prob., a sort of cake, and prob. of French origin. ] A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tasting of cork. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of spirit; crank. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unsteady; easy to upset; crank. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. worn down with age or use; in poor condition.
Syn. -- decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, rundown, woebegone. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. producing a rasping or grating sound under some circumsatance; as, they were alerted by the creaky stairs; my creaky kitchen door needs oiling.
Syn. -- creaking, screaky. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. aching when flexed; -- of body parts; as, my creaky old joints.
Syn. -- arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. “The creeky shore.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. like the sounds of frogs and crows; as, acres of croaky frogs.
Syn. -- croaking, guttural. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Crock soot. ] Smutty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a negro; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive. [ Slang ]
Syn. -- darkie, darkey. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ } n. 1. 1. A false detachable shirt front or bosom. [ Also spelled dickie. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gentleman's shirt collar. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (a) A seat for the driver (In a carriage); -- called also dickey box or dickie seat. (b) A seat at the back for servants. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. One of various animals; specif.: (a) A donkey. (b) Any small bird; -- called also dickeybird or dickey bird. [ Colloq. ] (c) The hedge sparrow. [ Dial. Eng. ] (d) The haddock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See dickey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Faulty. [ British informal ]
Syn. -- dickey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

I've got this dicky heart John le Carre

n. same as dickeybird. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. same as dickie-seat.
Syn. -- dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. small and insignificant; shabby or unimpressive; as, he drove to work in a dinky old Volkswagen; we stayed in a dinky little hotel. [ informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. pretty and neat; fashionable or well-dressed; as, what a dinky little hat. [ British informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. stupid, socially inept, unfashionable, or ridiculous; -- always used disparagingly. [ slang. ]
Syn. -- nerd; jerk. [ PJC ]

n. same as drosky.
Syn. -- drosky. [ WordNet 1.5 ]