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Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

dra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.…

The European long-tailed titmouse; -- called also poke-pudding. [Prov. Eng.]

One who pokes.

a kind, full houses, four of a kind, and five of a kind (the highest throw), similar to poker; also, the dice used in this game, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual digits.

Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place. [Colloq. U. S.] There is something pokerish about a deserted dwelling. Lowell.

A pocket. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Poke, the plant.

See Poky.

Spoken or speaking prettily. [Colloq.]

To poke; to thrust. [Obs.] Holland.

xasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate. Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4. Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. Milton. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray. To the poet…

The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.

imp. of Quake. Chaucer.

To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.] The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser.

Revocation. [R.] Shak.

One who revokes.

Mist; smoke; damp [Prov.Eng.] [Written also roak, rook, and rouk.]

Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [Local, U.S.]