Bed rock
() The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Chestnut
(n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. |
Chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. |
Chestnut
(n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut. |
Chestnut
(n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England). |
Chestnut
(n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals. |
Chestnut
(n.) An old joke or story. |
Chestnut
(a.) Of the color of a chestnut |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes. |
Pigeon
(n.) Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. |
Pigeon
(n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers |
Pigeon
(v. t.) To pluck |
Pigeon-breasted
(a.) Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity |
Pigeon-hearted
(a.) Timid |
Pigeon-livered
(a.) Pigeon-hearted. |
Quilled
(imp. & p. p.) of Quill |
Quilled
(a.) Furnished with quills |
Rock
(n.) See Roc. |
Rock
(n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
Rock shaft
() A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff
(v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |
Sea pigeon
() The common guillemot. |
Water chestnut
() The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points |