Word Meanings - CRACKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The pintail duck. 7. pl. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick
Additional info about word: CRACKER
The pintail duck. 7. pl. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker. 4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.
Related words: (words related to CRACKER)
- THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - POWDERY
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth. - THICK WIND
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - THICK-SKINNED
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - POWDERED
See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - THICKNESS
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). - FELLOWSHIP
1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. - THICK-WINDED
Affected with thick wind. - FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - THICKBILL
The bullfinch. - CRACKER STATE
Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - CRACKSMAN
A burglar. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - WIT-CRACKER
One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - BEDFELLOW
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - BEPOWDER
To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.