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A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

Uneven; ridgy. [R.] Holinshed.

Somewhat black.

Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.

ing; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

a moderate degree, as water in saline soil. Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be. Byron.

The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.

Beastly; brutal. [Obs.] Bale.

Dandified; foppish.

Somewhat dank. -- Dank"ish*ness, n. In a dark and dankish vault at home. Shak.

Somewhat dark; dusky.

Somewhat dusky. " Duskish smoke." Spenser. -- Dusk"ish*ly, adv. -- Dusk"ish*ness, n.

Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.

himsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.

Peculiar to Greece.

A small, two-wheeled, hooded vehicle drawn by one more men. [Japan]

Trickish; artful. [Obs.] -- Knack"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Inclined to be lazy. Marston. -- Lusk"*ish*ly, adv. -Lusk"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope.

In a mawkish way.