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Uncouth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

To loose or take from a socket.

Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

r supply of heat to the vessel. Used in laboratory and manufacturing equipment. water- jacketed. Having a water jacket; -- as, a water-jacketed condenser.

The common sandpiper.

A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]

A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.

A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman. "Heaven's wicket." Milton. And so went to the high street, . . . and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed. Ld. Berners. The wicket, often opened, knew the key. Dryden.

A whisket, or basket. [Prov. Eng.] Ainsworth.

A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

Methyl ketol; also, any of various homologues of the same.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

To impair; to destroy. [Obs.] Hacket.

A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

To awaken; to arouse. [Obs.] A man that waketh of his sleep He may not suddenly well taken keep Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly Till that he be adawed verily. Chaucer.

To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket one into a playhouse.

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.