*unke*

n. [ Scot. bunker, bunkart, a bench, or low chest, serving for a seat. Cf. Bunk, Bank, Bench. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small sand hole or pit, as on a golf course. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Golf) Hence, any rough hazardous ground on the links; also, an artificial hazard with built-up faces. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. (Mil.) A fortified position dug into the ground, especially one which is closed on top and has protective walls and roof, e. g. of reinforced concrete. For defending positions it usually has windows to view the surrounding terrain, but as a safe location for planning operations or storage, a bunker may be completely underground with no direct access to the surface. [ PJC ]

a. [ AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk. ] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Drunkenness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a drunken manner. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Syn. -- Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.” Burke.

{ } n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ G. tunken to dip. ] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330, 000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn. -- Dunkirk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Utterly drunk; very drunk. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to crouch or squat; to sit on one's haunches. [ PJC ]

2. to settle in at a location for an extended period; -- also (figuratively) to maintain a position and resist yielding to some pressure, as of public opinion. [ PJC ]

3. to take shelter, literally or figuratively; to assume a defensive position to resist difficulties. “We hunkered down to ride out the storm in an abandoned cabin.” [ PJC ]

While many businessmen were hunkering down for another bust after the lean years of the Second World War and the Great Depression before it, Taylor and company correctly reckoned it was the dawn of an era of prosperity and growth. Richard Siklos [ Shades of Black, 1995 ] [ PJC ]

n. Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Hunker. ] In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position; haunches. [ Scot. & Local, U. S. ]

Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. same as cast-off. Contrasted with kept, retained, and saved.
Syn. -- cast-off(prenominal), discarded, scrap(prenominal), waste. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ G. Cf. Yonker. ] A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. [ 1913 Webster ]

How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A feast; an entertainment. [ 1913 Webster ]

A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country. [ PJC ]

v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. [ 1913 Webster ]

Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing. ] To give entertainment to; to feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A feast or entertainment; a revel. [ 1913 Webster ]

All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of taking a junket{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. pl. Sweetmeats. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The menhaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. from Shrink. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a trunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl.) Same as Dunker. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. unke. ] (Zool.) A European aquatic toad (Bombinator igneus). Its back is dark; its belly is marked with crimson. Called also feuerkröte. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Corrupted fr. uncouth, or OE. unkid; un- + p. p. of AS. c&ymacr_;ðan to make known, fr. cūð known. See Uncouth. ] 1. Odd; strange; ugly; old; uncouth. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lonely; dreary; unkard. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Weston is sadly unked without you. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unkempt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p. of kemb. ] 1. Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st un- + kennel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To discover; to disclose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Un- knot + ken to know. ] Unknown; strange. [ Obs. or Scot. ] W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uncouth. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 1st pref. un- + trunk. ] Separated from its trunk or stock. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The common sandpiper. [ 1913 Webster ]