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Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

ements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk. [India] Dak boat, a mail boat. Percy Smith. -- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the and of a dak stage. -- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquines or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.

pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung. Knight.

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] -- To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete. -- To go to ground. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle. -- To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. -- To go under. (a) To set; -- said of t…

A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.

A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.

A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]

, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. [R.] Shak.

A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.

The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [Eng.]

Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.

A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole. [Written also velinche.]