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Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. (Bot.) See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes (Delphinium Ajacis). -- Sea rocket (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants (Cakile maritima and C. Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and Ameri…

A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket. [Eng.]

A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.

See under Rocket.

A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. The antlers and the crockets. W. Black.

Ornamented with crockets.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

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A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.

Same as Chain wheel.

A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers.

ging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

A brocket. Bailey.

om, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.

A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

Headstrong; obstinate. [Obs.] Brockett.

Crockets. See Crocket.