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Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.

A small pan or cup. Marryat. Thackeray.

The business of a pawnbroker.

Mean; sneaking. [Vulgar]

A kind of weak perry.

different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.

The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. [Colloq.] Tackeray.

The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron. Pinking iron. (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc. (b) A sword. [Colloq.]

A small earthen boiler.

The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

The quality or state of being plucky.

The state of being pocky.

Drudging; servile. [Colloq.] Bred to some poking profession. Gray.

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

he act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. "There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword." Prov. xii. 18 [1583].

The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.

A petty prince; a princeling. The princekins of private life. Thackeray.