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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7 words match “OCULARLY”

OCULARLY adv.
By the eye, or by actual sight.
BINOCULARLY adv.
In a binocular manner.
JOCULARLY adv.
In jest; for sport or mirth; jocosely.
BLACKGUARD n.
esidence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).…
COCK n.
cock, At full cock, with the hammer raised and ready to fire; -- said of firearms, also, jocularly, of one prepared for instant action. -- At half cock. See under Half. -- Cock feather (Archery), the feather of an arrow at right angles to the direction of the cock or notch. Nares.
CRISPIN n.
A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.
SQUARE-TOES n.
A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.