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See Kinnikinic.

A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.] Halliwell. Bartlett.

A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.

The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes.

A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw.

A collection of knickknacks. Richardson.

Knickknacks.

Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.

Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Colloq.]

See Picnic.

One who takes part in a picnic.

A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.

A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast. Snick and snee Etym: [cf. D. snee, snede, a cut], a combat with knives. [Obs.] Wiseman.

To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.

A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

ontaining a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

An alloy of nicked with copper and zinc; German silver.

356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenticum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5…

Pertaining to Rome and papal power. [Obs.] The . . . injurious nickname of Babylonish. Gape.