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Soft; sticky, and dirty. [Prov. Eng.] See Mucky.

itution or quality of mind or character. A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick. Shak. That reverence which is due to a superior nature. Addison. Good nature, Ill nature. see under Good and Ill. -- In a state of nature. (a) Naked as when born; nude. (b) In a condition of sin; unregenerate. (c) Untamed;…

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.

d. Campbell. Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

In another manner. [Obs.] He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.

Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.

en 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 moun…

Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. Kent.

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

To scrape or beat with the forefoot. His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane. Tickell.

At pawn, in the state of being pledged. "Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn." Shak. -- Pawn ticket, a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an article pledged.

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.

ic 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 p…

xiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away. "The roses wither and the lilies pine." Tickell.

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.