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ionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief. Thackeray.

A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet.

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. [Obs.] He expounded both his pockets. Hudibras.

te touches of satire consist in fine raillery. Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. T. Gray.

aped, with round or flat bottom, and usually very thin to allow of heating solutions. -- Pocket flask, a kind of pocket dram bottle, often covered with metal or leather to protect it from breaking.

A little pocket for a watch. Fob chain, a short watch chain worn a watch carried in the fob.

about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

A gopher, esp. the pocket gopher.

A pickpocket or thief. [Eng. Slang] Dickens.

rrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

To grope; to feel with the hands. He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling. Selden.

A nest that hangs like a bag or pocket.

One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. The harpies about all pocket the pool. Goldsmith.

case for writing materials. "With a writer's inkhorn by his side." Ezek. ix. 2. From his pocket the notary drew his papers and inkhorn. Longfellow.

A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.

The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.

ligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove. Prior.

it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory. I . . . entered a memorandum in my pocketbook. Guardian. I wish you would, as opportunity offers, make memorandums of the regulations of the academies. Sir J. Reynolds.

A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [Old Cant]