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Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly…

Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks. "In oaken bower." Milton. Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships. Bacon.

See Ocher. [Obs.] Spenser.

A young oak. Evelyn.

The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling. Knight. White oakum, that made from untarred rope.

Resembling oak; strong. Bp. Hall.

Soaking.

See Choke.

man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

In a concealed manner.

The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

See Coke, n.

y hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.

To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.

Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.

A species of seaweed. [Spelled also slowcawn.] See 3d Laver.

n water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.