a. Belonging to the ark. [ R. ] Faber. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not relying on imports; -- of countries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + working. ] At work; in action. [ Archaic or Colloq. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pair of pistols. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lively or mettlesome fellow. [ Jocular, Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking cares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cider + -kin. ] A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being corky. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a black person; an African-American; -- an older term now considered offensive.
Syn. -- darky, darkey. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Somewhat dark; dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From the town of Dorking in England. ] (Zool.) One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From AS. feówer four (or an allied word, perh. Dutch or Danish) + -kin. See Four. ] 1. A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. agurkje, a dim. akin to G. gurke, Dan. agurke; cf. Pol. ogórek, Bohem. okurka, LGr. 'aggoy`rion watermelon, Ar. al-khiyār, Per. khiyār. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Sea gherkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Gherkin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. habitually working diligently and for long hours.
Syn. -- industrious, tireless, untiring. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + &unr_; motion.] (Med.) Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm. [1913 Webster]

a. Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of working in together; interweaving. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of D. jurk a frock. ] A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A male gyrfalcon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk. -- Jerk"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. (Arch.) The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OD. kindeken, kinneken, a small barrel, orig., a little child, fr. kind child; akin to G. kind, and to E. kin. ] A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure. [ Written also kinderkin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lanarkshire, a county in Scotland. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pointed wooden tool used in glazing leaden lattice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marking ink, indelible ink, because used in marking linen. --
Marking nut (Bot.), the nut of the Semecarpus Anacardium, an East Indian tree. The shell of the nut yields a blackish resinous juice used for marking cotton cloth, and an oil prepared from it is used for rheumatism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A marquis. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A marchioness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A patch of false hair, or something resembling hair, worn on a string over the female pudenda; -- used by stripteasers. [ PJC ]

3. The hair on the female pubic area. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Akin to Sw. murken putrefied, Icel. morkinn putrid. ] A beast that has died of disease or by mischance. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Darkly; gloomily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being murky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Interchanging information or services, among a group; -- of persons or organizations. [ PJC ]

n. [ See 1st Nip. ] A small cup. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too anxious; too full of care. [ Archaic ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of parking parallel to the curb; -- contrasted with angle-parking. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A genus of tropical Old World trees, including the nitta trees.
Syn. -- genus Parkia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A space or spaces in which a vehicle can be parked; as, there is plenty of parking behind the store. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A small genus of spiny shrubs or small trees.
Syn. -- genus Parkinsonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).
Syn. -- paralysis agitans, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinson's, shaking palsy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A Mayo Clinic study finds parkinsonism, a group of ailments that includes Parkinson's disease, is three times more common than previously thought and men are more likely to develop it than women.
The study, published Tuesday in the journal Neurology, found the lifetime risk of developing parkinsonism is 7.5 percent, three times higher than previously thought. UPI (Jan. 2, 1999) [ PJC ]

prop. n. A disease causing parkinsonism, a degenerative nervous disorder; sometimes used loosely as a synonym for parkinsonism. More precisely, parkinson's disease is the term for the underlying physiological disorder and parkinsonism is the term for the set of symptoms associated with the disease. See parkinsonism.
Syn. -- paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease syndrome, shaking palsy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Parkinson's disease is the most common form of parkinsonism, a group of disorders that are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. Mayo Clinic (Report, 1999) [ PJC ]

According to the National Parkinson's Foundation (NPF), 1 million Americans -- including former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, and television and film star Michael J. Fox -- are affected by Parkinson's disease. Mayo Clinic (Report, 1999) [ PJC ]

n. A kind of weak perry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From J. E. Purkinje, their discoverer. ] (Anat.) Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]