‖n. [ NL.; auto- + Gr. &unr_; motion. ] (Physiol.) Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Auto- + kinetic. ] Self-moving; moving automatically. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. more pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion. better-looking than her sister
Syn. -- fine-looking, good-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An office where passage tickets are sold. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. “A bookish man.” Addison. “Bookish skill.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Book"ish*ly, adv. -- Book"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named from the English mineralogist, H. J. Brooke. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

. (Elec.) A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; -- called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. See Cooky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared; cookery.
Syn. -- cookery, cuisine, culinary art. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Docimastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; as, a fine-looking woman.[ Narrower terms: beautiful (vs. ugly) ]
Syn. -- good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. planning for the future; concerned primarily with the future; -- contrasted with conern for the immediate present or reacting to past events. backward-looking [ PJC ]

a. Handsome; fine-looking; as, a good-looking man.
Syn. -- fine-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Hexose + -kinase. ] (Biochem.) an enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate from glucose. [ PJC ]

a. [ Hydro-, 1 + kinetic. ] Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic. Sir W. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. appearing to be important; as, an important-looking sealed document. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. intended as a joke; -- of communications.
Syn. -- jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

no joking matter a serious matter. [ PJC ]

adv. In a joking way; sportively.

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut, kernel + kinei^n to move. ] 1. (Biol.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The changes that occur in the nucleus of a cell, especially movements of the chromosomes, in the process of cell division. [ PJC ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Obsequious; fawning; cringing. “Knee-crooking knave.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Crocidolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Icel. Loki, perh. akin to lokka, locka to allure, entice. ] (Scandinavian Myth.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the Ahriman of the Persians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who looks; a glance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance; face. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All dreary was his cheer and his looking. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Looking for, anticipation; expectation. “A certain fearful looking for of judgment.” Heb. x. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April-June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting US marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans.
Syn. -- Okinawa campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Looking on or forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Excessively bookish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of a pawnbroker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drudging; servile. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bred to some poking profession. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

adv. By way of revocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a smoky manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being smoky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Smoking bean (Bot.), the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. --
Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ metaphorical ] [ from imagined situations where a person holding a pistol, still smoking from having been fired, is found standing over a dead person ] Incontrovertible evidence; convincing evidence. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

I doubt not with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Needlework) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. See Stripping, 2. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tocsin. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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