Word Meanings - NECKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cracked; -- said of a treenail. (more info) 1. Having a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff- necked.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• NECKING
  See NECKMOLD
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CRACKLE
  To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• CRACKLED
  Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
• NECKMOLD; NECKMOULD
  A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.
• STIFF
  Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• CRACKSMAN
  A burglar.
• NECKERCHIEF
  A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
• NECKED
  Cracked; -- said of a treenail. (more info) 1. Having a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff- necked.
• CRACK
  cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2.
• SANDNECKER
  A European flounder ; -- called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• KNECK
  The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of