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Frolicsome. [Obs.] Richardson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking. [Colloq. Eng.]

Like or containing garlic.

Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.

Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.

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

Abounding in hummocks.

All right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.]

Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.

Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. "Inky blots." Shak. "Its inky blackness." Boyle.

A landsman's nickname for a seaman, resented by the latter.

Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.

Resembling a kecksy. Grew.

One of the United States. Kentucky blue grass (Bot.), a valuable pasture and meadow grass (Poa pratensis), found in both Europe and America. See under Blue grass. -- Kentucky coffee tree (Bot.), a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few see…

That which is restless and uneasy.

Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.

A churchyard. [Scot.]

Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable.