*oak*

v. t. & i. See Choke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtic origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock. ] 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cloaked p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking. ] To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

Syn. -- See Palliate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a concealed manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The material of which of which cloaks are made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Coke, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Carp.) A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers. [ Also spelt coag. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Carp.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Croaked. (krōkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Croaking. ] [ From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. krächzen to croak, and to E. creak, crake. ] 1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

The raven himself is hoarse,
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two ravens now began to croak
Their nuptial song. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast. (a) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum. (c) The surf fish of California. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When caught these fishes make a croaking sound; whence the name, which is often corrupted into crocus.

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

v. t. To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Cabinetwork) Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. āc; akin to D. eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The strong wood or timber of the oak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among the true oaks in America are:
Barren oak, or
Black-jack, Quercus nigra. --
Basket oak, Quercus Michauxii. --
Black oak, Quercus tinctoria; -- called also yellow oak or quercitron oak. --
Bur oak (see under Bur.), Quercus macrocarpa; -- called also over-cup or mossy-cup oak. --
Chestnut oak, Quercus Prinus and Quercus densiflora. --
Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), Quercus prinoides. --
Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, of California; -- also called enceno. --
Live oak (see under Live), Quercus virens, the best of all for shipbuilding; also, Quercus Chrysolepis, of California. --
Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak. --
Post oak, Quercus obtusifolia. --
Red oak, Quercus rubra. --
Scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea. --
Scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus undulata, etc. --
Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria. --
Spanish oak, Quercus falcata. --
Swamp Spanish oak, or
Pin oak, Quercus palustris. --
Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor. --
Water oak, Quercus aquatica. --
Water white oak, Quercus lyrata. --
Willow oak, Quercus Phellos. [ 1913 Webster ] Among the true oaks in Europe are:
Bitter oak, or
Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris (see Cerris). --
Cork oak, Quercus Suber. --
English white oak, Quercus Robur. --
Evergreen oak,
Holly oak, or
Holm oak, Quercus Ilex. --
Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera. --
Nutgall oak, Quercus infectoria. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among plants called oak, but not of the genus Quercus, are:
African oak, a valuable timber tree (Oldfieldia Africana). --
Australian oak or
She oak, any tree of the genus Casuarina (see Casuarina). --
Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak). --
Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem. --
New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree (Alectryon excelsum). --
Poison oak, a shrub once not distinguished from poison ivy, but now restricted to Rhus toxicodendron or Rhus diversiloba. --
Silky oak or
Silk-bark oak, an Australian tree (Grevillea robusta). [ 1913 Webster ]

Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the mycelium of certain fungi. --
Oak apple, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly (Cynips confluens). It is green and pulpy when young. --
Oak beauty (Zool.), a British geometrid moth (Biston prodromaria) whose larva feeds on the oak. --
Oak gall, a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall. --
Oak leather (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood. --
Oak pruner. (Zool.) See Pruner, the insect. --
Oak spangle, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the insect Diplolepis lenticularis. --
Oak wart, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak. --
The Oaks, one of the three great annual English horse races (the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called from his estate. --
To sport one's oak, to be “not at home to visitors, ” signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's rooms. [ Cant, Eng. Univ. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. ācen. ] Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks. “In oaken bower.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ocher. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A young oak. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. ācumba; pref. ā- (cf. G. er-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning, out) + cemban to comb, camb comb. See Comb. ] 1. The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

White oakum, that made from untarred rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Resembling oak; strong. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A species of seaweed. See 3d Laver. [ Spelled also slowcawn. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Soaked p. pr. & vb. n. Soaking. ] [ OE. soken, AS. socian to sioak, steep, fr. s&unr_;can, s&unr_;gan, to suck. See Suck. ] 1. To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To drench; to wet thoroughly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their land shall be soaked with blood. Isa. xxiv. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To drink intemperately or gluttonously. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, soaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hard drinker. [ Slang ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- Soak"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Full of moisture; wet; soppy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. G. stocken. ] (Naut.) To stop; to choke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + cloak. ] To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To remove, or take off, one's cloak. [ 1913 Webster ]