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power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.

A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion. Pumpkin seed. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zoöl.) The common pondfish.

A pumpkin. [Colloq. U. S.]

Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum.

The state of being quaky; liability to quake.

a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon. -- Quaking grass. (Bot.…

In a quaking manner; fearfully. Sir P. Sidney.

Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.

See Ramequin. [Obs.]

By way of rebuke.

A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

To enkindle again.

To kindle again.

By way of revocation.

Skating in a rink. [Colloq.]

The state or quality of being rocky.

Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking. Rocking shaft. (Mach.) See Rock shaft.

A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.

The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.