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Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.

A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

A lark that mounts and sings as it files, especially the common species (Alauda arvensis) found in Europe and in some parts of Asia, and celebrated for its melodious song; -- called also sky laverock. See under Lark.

The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]

See 1st Hag, 4.

ed substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7.

A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus.

nduction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

eto circuit on the outside, and forms, with another terminal on the base of the plug, a spark gap inside the cylinder.

A spark arrester.

Lively; brisk; gay. [Obs.] "Our sparkful youth." Camden.

Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh.

A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott.

One who, or that which, sparkles.

A small spark. [Obs.]

Vivacity. [Obs.] Aubrey.

Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n.

Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. Spenser. His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson.

In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly. Its onward force too starky pent In figure, bone, and lineament. Emerson.

The quality or state of being stark.