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An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [Obs.] Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

A drinking between meals. [Obs.]

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

See Coal.

The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing. Calking iron, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.

Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares.

That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

g with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype.

The noise or call of a brooding hen.

Cockfighting. Ben Jonson.

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound. Start not at the creaking of the door. Longfellow.

led also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

The process of engraving dies.

One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.