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The poachard. [Prov. Eng.] Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron. Fairholt.

a kind, full houses, four of a kind, and five of a kind (the highest throw), similar to poker; also, the dice used in this game, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual digits.

Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place. [Colloq. U. S.] There is something pokerish about a deserted dwelling. Lowell.

One who revokes.

The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. Tennyson.

The lyrie.

A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.

One who dries or preserves by smoke.

A broker who deals in stocks.

A fire poker. [R.] C. Richardson (Dict.).

who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.

n. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.

15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

tely upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.

of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

Fondness; affection. [Obs.] Hooker.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

se speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

ing different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.