adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + flicker. ] In a flickering state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family comprising the bubble shells.
Syn. -- family Akeridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Ar. al-qirmiz kermes. See Kermes. ] (Old Pharmacy) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. anker: cf. LL. anceria, ancheria. ] A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 81/2 imperial gallons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Prof. Anker of Austria: cf. F. ankérite, G. ankerit. ] (Min.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of AS. a&unr_;exe lizard, newt. ] (Zool.) An ask; a water newt. [ Local Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attacks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a framework on small wheels or casters designed to support small children while they are learning to walk, and usually having a fabric support that permits the child to sit. Called also walker and go-cart.
Syn. -- walker, go-cart [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. one who backpacks; as, two backpackers were mauled by bears in Yellowstone this week. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. bæcere. See Bake, v. t. ] 1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A portable oven in which baking is done. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A baker's dozen, thirteen. --
Baker foot, a distorted foot. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. --
Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast. --
Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having legs that bend inward at the knees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The trade of a baker. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for baking bread; a bakehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 2d Balk. ] One who, or that which, balks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See last Balk. ] A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ See the nouns Bank and the verbs derived from them. ] 1. One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A money changer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Crabb. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A ditcher; a drain digger. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female banker. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strips trees of their bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who stands at the doors of shops to urg&unr_; passers by to make purchases. [ Cant, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pistol. [ Slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) The spotted redshank. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Dr. Barker, the inventor. ] A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tanhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. biker; akin to Icel. bikarr, Sw. bägare, Dan. baeger, G. becher, It. bicchiere; -- all fr. LL. bicarium, prob. fr. Gr. bi^kos wine jar, or perh. L. bacar wine vessel. Cf. Pitcher a jug. ] 1. A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes beds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Icel. berserkr. ] 1. (Scand. Myth.) One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bespeaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Beaker. ] A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bickered p. pr. & vb. n. Bickering. ] [ OE. bikeren, perh. fr. Celtic; cf. W. bicra to fight, bicker, bicre conflict, skirmish; perh. akin to E. beak. ] 1. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ streamlets ] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A skirmish; an encounter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bickers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A skirmishing. “Frays and bickerings.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Altercation; wrangling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Contention. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bigorne. See Bicorn. ] An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

One who negotiates the discount of bills. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor bigots who but one way see,
through blinkers of authority. M. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as bobbysoxer.
Syn. -- bobbysoxer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Horse Racing) A betting man who “makes a book.” See To make a book, under Book, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as he had no self-respect.
Syn. -- apple polisher, bootlick, fawner, groveller, truckler, ass-kisser, toady. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. One who, or that which, breaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll be no breaker of the law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A small water cask. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
Syn. -- ledgeman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ OE. brocour, from a word akin to broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, possess, digest, fr. AS. brūcan to use, enjoy; cf. Fries. broker, F. brocanteur. See Brook, v. t. ] 1. One who transacts business for another; an agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A dealer in secondhand goods. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A pimp or procurer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. --
Curbstone broker or
Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [ U.S. ] --
Exchange broker, one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money. --
Insurance broker, one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire. --
Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker. --
Real estate broker, one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage. --
Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. --
Stock broker. See Stockbroker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Mean; servile. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]