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eat power of leaping or running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.] She is as spry as a cricket. S. Judd (Margaret). If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. Emerson.

To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.

A small marline spike; a pricker.

ted and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. (Computer programming)

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike. And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal. Ex. xxxviii. 7. With forks and staves the felon to pursue. Dryden.…

actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.

A lining made of brick, stone, or other hard material, as for a well. [Written also steaning.]

A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.

and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

ter, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. Fuller.

the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. "Dumb as a stone." Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. Gen. xi. 3.

An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes. Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cookin…

uct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. "A strain of gallantry." Sir W. Scott. Such take too high a strain at first. Bacon. The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. Tillotson. It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains…

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. Gwilt.

n hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.

as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! Landor.

See Strickle.