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A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift.

ven to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. -- Sea partridge (Zoöl.), an Asiatic sand partridge (Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note. -- Snow partridge (Zoöl.), a large spurred partridge (Lerwa nivicola) which inhabits the high mou…

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.

A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).

Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidæ, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.

ric acid. (Chem.) (a) Metaphosphoric acid in the form of glassy semitransparent masses or sticks. (b) Pure normal phosphoric acid. -- Phosphoric acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, H3PO4, which is the most highly oxidized acid of phosphorus, and forms an important and extensive series of compounds, viz., the…

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. Ecclus. xiii. 1.

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. "A plant of stubborn oak." Dryden.

ition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

A poking-stick. Decker.

A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5 Bacon. Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean. -- Pole flounder (Zoöl.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and m…

A stick for stirring a tan vat.

The stickleback.

- Proof staff, a straight-edge used by millers to test the flatness of a stone. -- Proof stick (Sugar Manuf.), a rod in the side of a vacuum pan, for testing the consistency of the sirup. -- Proof text, a passage of Scripture used to prove a doctrine. proof coin or proof, a coin which has been specially struck, to pr…

To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.

g, a lashing or binding where the rope is tightened, and held tight by the use of a small stick of wood twisted around. -- Rack rail (Railroads), a toothed rack, laid as a rail, to afford a hold for teeth on the driving wheel of locomotive for climbing steep gradients, as in ascending a mountain. -- Rack saw, a saw h…

A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.