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A European aquatic toad (Bombinator igneus). Its back is dark; its belly is marked with crimson. Called also feuerkröte.

Lonely; dreary; unkard. [Prov. Eng.] Weston is sadly unked without you. Cowper.

Unkempt. [Obs.]

Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.

To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox.

Unknown; strange. [Obs. or Scot.] W. Browne.

Uncouth. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon.

Drunkenness. [Obs.]

In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.

The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.

ctices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

Utterly drunk; very drunk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [Political Cant, U.S.]

Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress. [Political Cant, U.S.]

In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position. [Scot. & Local, U. S.]

A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.