n. [ L. ala wing + truncus trunk. ] (Zool.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. Bunch. ] 1. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers; as, to sleep in the top bunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a bed. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bunked p. pr. & vb. n. Bunking. ] To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [ Colloq. U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A type of multiple bed in which the individual beds are arranged one above the other. It is used to save space in crowded quarters. [ PJC ]

v. t. (Golf) To drive (the ball) into a bunker. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Scot. bunker, bunkart, a bench, or low chest, serving for a seat. Cf. Bunk, Bank, Bench. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A small sand hole or pit, as on a golf course. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Golf) Hence, any rough hazardous ground on the links; also, an artificial hazard with built-up faces. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. (Mil.) A fortified position dug into the ground, especially one which is closed on top and has protective walls and roof, e. g. of reinforced concrete. For defending positions it usually has windows to view the surrounding terrain, but as a safe location for planning operations or storage, a bunker may be completely underground with no direct access to the surface. [ PJC ]

n. 1. someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as oneself. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. Bank (in the commercial sense). ] A kind of swindling game or scheme, originally by means of cards or by a sham lottery, but now used for any swindling tactic. [ Written also bunco. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bunkoed p. pr. & vb. n. Bunkoing. ] To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Buncombe a county of North Carolina. ] Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [ Cant or Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The phrase originated near the close of the debate on the famous ‘Missouri Question, ' in the 16th Congress. It was then used by Felix Walker -- a naïve old mountaineer, who resided at Waynesville, in Haywood, the most western country of North Carolina, near the border of the adjacent county of Buncombe, which formed part of his district. The old man rose to speak, while the house was impatiently calling for the ‘Question, ' and several members gathered round him, begging him to desist. He persevered, however, for a while, declaring that the people of his district expected it, and that he was bound to ‘make a speech for Buncombe.'” W. Darlington. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Buncombe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indian name. ] (Zool.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [ Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chump. ] A short, thick piece of anything. [ Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Short and thick. [ U. S. ] Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. from Countersink. 1. Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sunk into a chamfer; as, a countersunk bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. [ Cf. Icel. kr&unr_;nka to croak. ] To cry like a crane. [ Obs. ] “The crane crunketh.” Withals (1608). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink. ] 1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). [ 1913 Webster ]

Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A drunken condition; a spree. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Drunk + -ard. ] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk. ] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Drunkenness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a drunken manner. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Syn. -- Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.” Burke.

{ } n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ G. tunken to dip. ] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States; they were opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330, 000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn. -- Dunkirk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. the name of a town and a battle fought there, in World War II (1940) when 330, 000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England.
Syn. -- Dunkerque. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Flunked p. pr. & vb. n. Flunking. ] [ Cf. Funk. ] To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To fail in; to fail to pass (a test, examination, or course of study). [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. To shirk, as a task or duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A failure or backing out; specifically (College cant), a total failure in a recitation. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to be dismissed (from a school or course of study) due to failure to perform up to the minimum standard.
Syn. -- fail out; wash out. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Flunkies [ Prob. fr. or akin to flank. ] [ Written also flunkey. ] 1. A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [ Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The place or region of flunkies. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Utterly drunk; very drunk. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an earthy, seemingly unsophisticated style of jazz music having elements of black American blues and gospel. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. funke a little fire; akin to Prov. E. funk touchwood, G. funke spark, and perh. to Goth. fōn fire. ] 1. An offensive smell; a stench. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who funks; a shirk; a coward. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. a state of fear. [ PJC ]

4. a mildly depressed state of mind; -- often used in the phrase blue funk. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. [ Obs. ] King. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To funk at; to flinch at; to shrink from (a thing or person); as, to funk a task. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. To frighten; to cause to flinch. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. 1. To emit an offensive smell; to stink. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [ Colloq. ] C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

n. A genus of robust East Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in the family Hostaceae.
Syn. -- Hosta, genus Hosta, genus Funka. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae, but not widely accepted; it includes the genus Hosta.
Syn. -- Hostaceae, family Hostaceae, family Funkaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. A shrinking back through fear. [ Colloq. ] “The horrid panic, or funk (as the men of Eton call it).” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking; having great fear. [ Colloq. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. having an earthy, unsophisticated style or feeling; in (Music), earthy and seemingly unsophisticated, having elements of black American blues and gospel. See 2nd funk, n. [ PJC ]

n. any thick gooey and messy substance. [ informal ]
Syn. -- goo, gook, guck, muck, ooze, sludge, slime. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Hunch. ] 1. A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread. [ Colloq. ]

2. a sexually attractive, well-built man. [ PJC ]

n. Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to crouch or squat; to sit on one's haunches. [ PJC ]

2. to settle in at a location for an extended period; -- also (figuratively) to maintain a position and resist yielding to some pressure, as of public opinion. [ PJC ]

3. to take shelter, literally or figuratively; to assume a defensive position to resist difficulties. “We hunkered down to ride out the storm in an abandoned cabin.” [ PJC ]

While many businessmen were hunkering down for another bust after the lean years of the Second World War and the Great Depression before it, Taylor and company correctly reckoned it was the dawn of an era of prosperity and growth. Richard Siklos [ Shades of Black, 1995 ] [ PJC ]

n. Excessive conservatism; hostility to progress. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Hunker. ] In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position; haunches. [ Scot. & Local, U. S. ]

Sit on your hunkers -- and pray for the bridge. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]