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A squinting eye. Forby.

See Cooky.

A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree. Wright.

A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.

A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass. Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the larg…

Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery. [Colloq.]

See Hockey. Holloway.

Iowa; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]

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A professional rider and trainer of race horses.

To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.

The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. Beaconsfield.

The practice of jockeys.

The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey. Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship. Chatterton. Where can at last his jockeyship retire Cowper.

male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with blue, yellow…

A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.

A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for mischievous child. This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded I will marry her. Shak.

aria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called piñon by the Chilians.

The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.