n. [ F., a feast, prop. a dim. of banc bench; cf. It. banchetto, dim. of banco a bench, counter. See Bank a bench, and cf. Banquette. ] 1. A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We'll dine in the great room, but let the music
And banquet be prepared here. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Banqueted; p. pr. & vb. n. Banqueting. ] To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Just in time to banquet
The illustrious company assembled there. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets,
I would not taste thy treasonous offer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To partake of a dessert after a feast. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where they did both sup and banquet. Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).
Syn. -- feasting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A bench or seat for passengers on the top of a diligence or other public vehicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

My brother-in-law . . . took refuge in the banquette. Mrs. Howe. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. See Banquet, n. ] 1. (Fort.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

old p. p. of Bequeath. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] The toy called cup and ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. blanquette, from blanc white. ] (Cookery) A white fricassee. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bosquet a little wood, dim. fr. LL. boscus. See Boscage, and cf. Bouquet. ] (Gardening) A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bosket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bouquet bunch, bunch of flowers, trees, feathers, for bousquet, bosquet, thicket, a little wood, dim. of LL. boscus. See Bush thicket, and cf. Bosket, Busket. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A nosegay; a bunch of flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Zool.) The ibex. [ 1913 Webster ]

A watch-guard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also briquet. ] [ F., dim. of brique brick. ] 1. A block of compacted charcoal, coal dust, or peat, etc., used as a fuel. Charcoal briquettes are a common fuel used for the outdoor barbecue grill. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving; also, a molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coquetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Coquetting. ] To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. [ 1913 Webster ]

You are coquetting a maid of honor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Coquetries /plu>. [ F. coquetterie. ] Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love. “Little affectations of coquetry.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. coquet, coquette, coquettish, orig., cocklike, strutting like a cock, fr. coq a cock. Cf. Cock, Cocket, Cocky, Cockade. ] 1. A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pretty, coquettish housemaid. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a coquettish manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Croqueted p. pr. & vb. n. Croqueting ] In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From French; cf. Walloon croque blow, fillip. F. croquet a crisp biscuit, croquer to crunch, fr. croc a crackling sound, of imitative origin. Croquet then properly meant a smart tap on the ball. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of croqueting. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. croquer to crunch. ] (Cookery) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, vegetables, or other ingredients, often in a thick white sauce, highly seasoned, breaded, and fried; as, a dish of crab croquettes. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. & v. See Docket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A warrant. See Docket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prop., a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket, OF.estiquete, of German origin; cf. LG. stikke peg, pin, tack, stikken to stick, G. stecken. See Stick, and cf. Ticket. ] The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Acton. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. marqueterie, from marqueter to checker, inlay, fr. marque mark, sign; of German origin. See Mark a sign. ] Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, veneer, and the like, of several colors, fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Caspar Milquetoast, a character in a cartoon strip by H. T. Webster, The Timid Soul (1935). ] a timid, unassertive man or boy fearful of confrontation and easily manipulated and dominated.
Syn. -- sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. ] A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A musketeer, esp. one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, conspicuous both for their daring and their fine dress. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A mosquetaire cuff or glove, or other article of dress fancied to resemble those worn by the French mosquetaires. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A deep flaring cuff. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A woman's glove with a long, loosely fitting wrist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Musket. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] It is not clear; -- a verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred to another day of trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Paroquet. ] (Zool.) See Parrakeet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See Parrot. ] (Zool.) Same as Parrakeet. [ Written also paroket, parroquet, and perroquet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Paroquet auk or
Paroquet auklet (Zool.), a small auk (Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also perroquet auk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Parquetry. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as Parquetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In various European public bourses, the railed-in space within which the “agents de change, ” or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them; -- distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. In most European countries, the branch of the administrative government which is charged with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime, representing the public and not the individual injured. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Parquetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

. That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

One room parqueted with yew, which I liked well. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. parqueterie, fr. parquet inlaid flooring, fr. parquet, dim. of parc an inclosure. See Park. ] A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Parquet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Zool.) See Paroquet, Parakeet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Piquet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Picket. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prob. fr. pique. See Pique, Pike, and Picket. ] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [ Written also picket and picquet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of plaque plate, plaque. See Plaque. ] A small plaque, esp., in modern medal engraving, a small and delicate bas-relief, whether cast or struck from a die, or of form other than circular. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]