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Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.

To pull or pluck up. [Obs.]

Double aces, the lowest throw of all at dice. Hence: Bad luck; anything of no account or value.

g or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

Astrology. [Obs.] Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy. Shak.

To pluck or pull off. Shenstone.

In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner. [Obs.] Holland.

To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. Shak.

taining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.

dy's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

ricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black.

capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal. Even with regard to captures made at sea. Bluckstone.

loping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth. It is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, whic…

Luck; chance; accident. Milton. Cowper.

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. [Obs.] Dryden.

To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.

unds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]