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A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak.

Full of spirit; crank.

aining, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.

Smutty.

A negro. [Sleng]

A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in Germ…

Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.

To place in the sky or in heaven. [R.] "A thing enskied and sainted." Shak.

Finical; unduly particular. [Colloq.]

ng, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. What showers of mortal hail, what flaky fires! Watts. A flaky weight of winter's purest snows. Wordsworth.

Abounding with flocks; floccose.

Fluky.

Formed like, or having, a fluke.

A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

The place or region of flunkies. C. Kingsley.

Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated. "Forky tongues." Pope.

Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.