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Caused by boscage. Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James.

See under Whisky.

Brackish. Drayton.

of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny. In the woods and braky glens. W. Browne.

Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. [R.] Spenser.

A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.

Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.

See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n. Shak.

Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]

a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [Slang.]

A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.

Short and thick. [U. S.] Kane.

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

Pert. [Slang]

A pet name for any small bird.

Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.