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Making choices; fickle. [Obs.] His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.

A kind of mixed pickles.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.] Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise. Holland.

fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc. The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. Shak.

cy inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

Preserved; pickled. [Obs.] Burton.

change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle. Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends. Sir P. Sidney. I am constant to my purposes. Shak. His gifts, his constant ourtship, nothing gained. Dryden. Onward the constant current sweeps. Longfellow.…

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

-- Death bell, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And…

ng, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

To trickle. [Obs. or R.] Sandys.

A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

Set with small spines or prickles.

An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles. Loudon.

Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.