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inerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. All the poor old shacks about the town found a friend in Deacon Marble. H. W. Beecher. Common of shack (Eng.Law), the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest. Co…

A hound. [Obs.]

on; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. Spenser.

A sort of shackle. [Obs.]

Shaky; rickety. [Colloq. U. S.]

See Thatch, Thatcher. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.

To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. G. W. Cable.

One who whacks. [Colloq.]

Very large; whapping. [Colloq.]

The yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

g. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

To impair; to destroy. [Obs.] Hacket.

To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.

r agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. Thackeray.

nner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs. Thackeray.

. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] Hacket.