Word Meanings - CHINKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.
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- DERANGER
One who deranges. - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - CRACKAJACK
1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes. - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - QUEERISH
Rather queer; somewhat singular. - CRACK-BRAINED
Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope. - CRACKER STATE
Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5. - CRACKLE
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden. - CRACKLED
Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware. - CRACKSMAN
A burglar. - CRACK
cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2. - CRACKLING
Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting. (more info) 1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6. 2. The well-browned, - TOUCHING
Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv. - TOUCHY
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury. - FLIGHTY
1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and - TOUCHBACK
The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown. - TOUCH-NEEDLE
A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone. - DERANGE
1. To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation. - CRACKNEL
A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser. - TOUCHHOLE
The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge. - WIT-CRACKER
One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak. - HALF-CRACKED
Half-demented; half-witted. - CARTOUCH
An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign. (more info) cartoccio, cornet, cartouch, fr. L. charta paper. See 1st Card, and A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge. A cartridge