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2,126 words match “OKE”

TOKEN n. 9 definitions
represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.
TOKENED a.
Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence. [Obs.] Shak.
TOKENLESS a.
Without a token.
TRUDGEN STROKE n.
A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.
UNBOOKED a.
Not written in a book; unrecorded. "UnbookedEnglish life." Masson.
UNBROKEN a.
Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.
UNDERSTROKE v.
To underline or underscore. Swift.
UNDERYOKE v.
To subject to the yoke; to make subject. Wyclif.
UNLOOKED a.
Not observed or foreseen; unexpected; -- generally with for. "Unlooked success." Denham. She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all. Pope.
UNLOOKED-FOR a.
Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event.
UNNOOKED a.
Without nooks and corners; guileless. [Obs.] "Unnooked simplicity." Marston.
UNWROKEN a.
Not revenged; unavenged. [Obs.] Surrey.
UNYOKE v. 2 definitions
To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." Shak.
UNYOKED a. 3 definitions
Not yet yoked; not having worn the yoke.
UPSTROKE n.
An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made. Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. Mrs. Browning.
WELL-SPOKEN a. 2 definitions
Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly. "A knight well-spoken." Shak.
WIND-BROKEN a.
Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse. Youatt.
WOKE p.
Wake.
WROKEN n.
p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.
YOKE n. 15 definitions
joined at the heads or necks for working together. A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke. Pope.
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