Word Meanings - KNOCKINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.
Related words: (words related to KNOCKINGS)
- PICKABACK
A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies. - PICK-FAULT
One who seeks out faults. - PICKEER
To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp. - DRESSINESS
The state of being dressy. - PICKPACK
Pickaback. - PICKET
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept - PICKPENNY
A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More. - PICK-UP; PICKUP
= Brush b. 3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc. (more info) 1. Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes - PICKSY
See PIXY - PICKTHANK
One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak. - PICKEERER
One who pickeers. - PICK
Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., 1. To throw; to pitch. As high as I could pick my lance. Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; - DRESS CIRCLE
A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn. - PICKTOOTH
A toothpick. Swift. - LARGE-ACRED
Possessing much land. - DRESSING
An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; - PICKLOCK
1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak. 2. One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor. - PICKING
The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. Simmonds. (more info) 1. The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick. 2. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering. 3. That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned. 4. Pilfering; also, - PICKNICK
See PICNIC - DRESSY
Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving. - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - OFFENDRESS
A woman who offends. Shak. - UNPICK
To pick out; to undo by picking. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - EARPICK
An instrument for removing wax from the ear. - REDRESSIVE
Tending to redress. Thomson. - FOOL-LARGESSE
Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer. - ADDRESS
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more - TOP-DRESSING
The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied. - MISPICKEL
Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite. - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness.