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In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.

A stocking weaver.

a. & n. from Strike, v. Striking distance, the distance through which an object can be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is effective when directed to a particular object. -- Striking plate. (a) The plate against which the latch of a door lock strikes as the door is closed. (b) A part of the centering…

rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke. I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears. Milton.

One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zoölogy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, Coelentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.

Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Su…

A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. Bouvier.

Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller.

Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.

That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.

the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.

A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.

The business of conveying goods on trucks.

A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.

The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt.

To cause to cease to be a king. [R.] Shall his condescension, therefore, unking him South.

The quality or condition of being unkinged; abolition of monarchy. [Obs.] Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down. Evelyn.

Destitute of stockings. Sir W. Scott.