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A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

ropean river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.]

To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering. Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp. Shak.

cesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. Thackeray.

A bird; the flicker.

A click. See 3d Click, 2.

y workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.

A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.

Wavering; not steady; flickering. Bacon.

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

er, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [Obs.]

The flicker; -- called also high-hole. [Local, U. S.]

The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds. Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (C. maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. -- Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant.…

A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.

A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i). Jigger mast. (Naut.) (a) The after mast of a four- masted vessel. (b) The small mast set at the stern of a yawlrigged boat.