n. [ Cf. F. alkékenge, Sp. alquequenje, ultimately fr. Ar. al-kākanj a kind of resin from Herat. ] (Bot.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. & i. To avenge. [ Obs. ] See Wreak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. be- + wreak. ] To wreak; to avenge. [ Obs. ] Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bibliotheca, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; book + &unr_; a case, box, fr. &unr_; to place: cf. F. bibliothèque. ] A library. [ Obs. ] Bale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a cheek; -- used in composition. “Rose-cheeked Adonis.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ciclatoun. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , n. (Astron.) A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. See Eke. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Eked p. pr. & vb. n. Eking. ] [ AS. ēkan, &ymacr_;kan; akin to OFries. āka, OS. ōkian, OHG. ouhhōn to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. ōjas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname. ] To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. “To eke my pain.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. &unr_;k, D. &unr_;ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb. ] In addition; also; likewise. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. Mätzner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An addition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. Geddes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Ekeberg, a German. ] (Min.) A variety of scapolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Nickname. ] An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE., fr. pref. erce- = archi- + deken a deacon. ] An archdeacon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female Greek. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to take care of all household-related business.
Syn. -- house-keep, maintain a household, keep house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who keeps or stays much at home. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You are manifest housekeeper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A house dog. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry?
Small housekeeping enough, said Phœbe. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a group of children appearing on the television program The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950's. [ U. S. ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. someone who keeps peace; as, she's the peacekeeper in that family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. the pistol of a law officer in the old West. [ U. S. History ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a Pekingese. [ Colloquial ]
Syn. -- Pekinese, Pekingese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. [ 1913 Webster ]

A skeptic [ is ] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To seek. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sick. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a pen, a sacred inclosure, a shrine. ] (Arch.) A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. shegel, fr. shāgal to weigh. ] 1. An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A common estimate makes the shekel equal in weight to about 130 grains for gold, 224 grains for silver, and 450 grains for copper, and the approximate values of the coins are (gold) $5.00, (silver) 60 cents, and (copper half shekel), one and one half cents. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. A jocose term for money. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who utters a shriek. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To speak. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The parlor or reception room of a convent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who keeps a “store;” a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) One who marks the time in musical performances. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ D. (in South Africa). ] One who treks before or first; a pioneer. [ South Africa ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The meadow pipit. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, v. t. See 2d Wreak. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]