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The act of breaking out.

Too anxious; too full of care. [Archaic] Fuller.

A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes. J. R. Green.

A trick; collusion. [Obs.] Bale. Cherd packing (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. --…

Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.

The business of a pawnbroker.

Mean; sneaking. [Vulgar]

p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.

The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. [Colloq.] Tackeray.

The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron. Pinking iron. (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc. (b) A sword. [Colloq.]

The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

Drudging; servile. [Colloq.] Bred to some poking profession. Gray.

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

he act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. "There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword." Prov. xii. 18 [1583].

The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.

power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.

a. & n. from Quake, v. Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar (Populus tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon. -- Quaking grass. (Bot.…

In a quaking manner; fearfully. Sir P. Sidney.

Spun yarn used in racking ropes.