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Word Meanings - KNOCKINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

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  • 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.

 

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