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Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

ed with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

One who burlesques.

See Cazique.

A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.

See 2d Calk, v. t.

ive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet. His casque overshadowed with brilliant plumes. Prescott.

A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.

See Check.

Same as Checker.

A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

A chronicle. L. Addison.

Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

Five; the number five in dice or cards.

ards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

Five-spotted. [R.] Shak.

A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento.