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A long, narrow sword; a rapier. [Obs.] Shak. He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length. Sir W. Scot.

The finishing of joints along the center lines with a narrow ridge of putty or fine lime mortar.

See Tuck, n., 2.

A curious vegetable production of the Southern Atlantic United States, growing under ground like a truffle and often attaining immense size. The real nature is unknown. Called also Indian bread, and Indian loaf.

One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.

A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare. [Obs.] Tucket sonance, the sound of the tucket. [Obs.] Let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount. Shak.

imp. & p. p. Bestick.

One of the United States. Kentucky blue grass (Bot.), a valuable pasture and meadow grass (Poa pratensis), found in both Europe and America. See under Blue grass. -- Kentucky coffee tree (Bot.), a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few see…

imp. & p. p. of Stick.

Self-important and supercilious, [Colloq.] The airs of small, stuck-up, men. A. K. H. Boyd.

A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.

The rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

To unfold or undo, as a tuck; to release from a tuck or fold.

achment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

sh (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

(Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass. Kentucky blue grass, a species of grass (Poa pratensis) which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly. It is valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and drought better than other kinds, and is very nutritious.…

The Sate of Kentucky; -- a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses are bred.

Fated or decreed with something else. [R.] A. Tucker.