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als of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other. Sir W. Raleigh. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope.

st; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak.

A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. Elmes.

ined; loth. Reluctant, but in vain. Milton. Reluctant now I touched the trembling string. Tickell.

d dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.

A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end. Moore (Encyc. of Music. ).

A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.

n of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotec…

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Specifically:

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.

A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense). [Canada]

from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmo…

To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to. [R.] Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! Shak.…

A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.

A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.

A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets. [Cant]

hority; to invest with royal authority. To Britain's queen the sceptered suppliant bends. Tickell.

ght; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick. Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. Evelyn. Golden sconces hang not on the walls. Dryden.

cavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow. To scratch a ticket, to cancel one or more names of candidates on a party ballot; to refuse to vote the party ticket in its entirety. [U.S.]

To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak.