Word Meanings - POCK-BROKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

Related words: (words related to POCK-BROKEN)

• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• MARK
  A license of reprisals. See Marque.
• MARKSMAN
  One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
• MARKABLE
  Remarkable. Sandys.
• MARKIS
  A marquis. Chaucer.
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• MARKER
  One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• MARKISESSE
  A marchioness. Chaucer.
• BROKEN-BACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• MARKEE
  See MARQUEE
• MARKED
  Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it,
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• BROKEN-BELLIED
  Having a ruptured belly.
• BROKENNESS
  1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• BOOKMARK
  Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
• COMMARK
  The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• SWANMARK
  A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• POCK-FRETTEN
  See POCKMARKED
• COUNTERMARK
  An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark
• POCKMARKED
  Marked by smallpox; pitted.
• RE-MARK
  To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.