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Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

A cockney. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make crooked. [Obs.]

To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.…

To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

One who, or that which, darkens.

Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.] I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.

To make unlike; to disguise. [Obs.] Shak.

Unlikeness. [R.] Locke.

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon.

Drunkenness. [Obs.]

In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.

The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.

To make dusk or obscure. [R.] Not utterly defaced, but only duskened. Nicolls.

An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [Obs.]

To put into a kennel.

To quicken; to make alive. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.