Search the Dictionary

See Pickeerer. [R.]

the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.]

Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

A small plaque, esp., in modern medal engraving, a small and delicate bas-relief, whether cast or struck from a die, or of form other than circular.

Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.

Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.

Garrulous; loquacious. [R.]

Practice; habits. [Obs.] "One of English education and pratique." R. North.

To conquer in anticipation. [R.] Fuller.

The pentail.

An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.

Having five leaflets. Gray.

A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.

Having five angles; quinquangular.

Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.

Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous. Gray.

Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.

Having five leaves or leaflets. Gray.

Consisting of five letters.

Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.