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The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.

The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.

, from Duck, v. t. & i. Ducking stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied, and plunged into water, as a punishment. See Cucking stool. The practice of ducking began in the latter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th centur…

See Eking.

rved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.]

A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children.

Finical; unduly particular. [Colloq.]

A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A prediction; also, a preface. [Obs.] Camden. Huloet.

A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.

Freakish. [Obs.] Pepys.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.

A shrinking back through fear. [Colloq.] "The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it)." De Quincey.

Handsome.

The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.

Causing overpowering sorrow.

Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.

The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.

Bulky; unwiedly. [R.] "A huge hulking fellow." H. Brooke.

The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.