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Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.

To unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin. [Poetic] R. Browning.

Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. [R.] Dryden.

A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.

An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. Coleridge.

To call out; to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.

speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. Shak.

Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.

A blow with the hand.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

Same as Hockday.

Scorn; derision; abusive talk. [Obs.] -- Ho"ker*ly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

A universal joint. See under Universal.

Having the form of a hookl curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

One who, or that which, hooks.