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An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.

A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.

A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.

A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.

A blow with the hand.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.

A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin.

See Paroquet.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

To poke; to thrust. [Obs.] Holland.

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

In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.

The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket.

A broker who deals in stocks.

attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon. His hand fetcheth a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree. Deut. xix. 5. A fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes. Prov. xviii. 6. He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke. Bacon.…