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azard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction. The imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves. Macaulay.

One who risks or hazards. Hudibras.

Risky. [R.] Geddes.

Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter." W. Collins. Generalization are always risky. Lowell.

The figure of a star, thus,

Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth.

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

In a brisk manner; nimbly.

Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.

Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A leap or caper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

Brisk; lively; frolicsome.

In a frisky manner.

State or quality of being frisky.

Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.

The spine of a hog. [Obs.]

Same as Morisco.

ertain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.