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Killifish :: Killifish (n.) Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow..

Wit-snapper :: Wit-snapper (n.) One who affects repartee; a wit-cracker.

Racking :: Racking (n.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

Rack :: Rack (a.) An instrument for bending a bow.

Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like..

Chap :: Chap (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

Crack :: Crack (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke..

Snap :: Snap (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun..

Decrepitation :: Decrepitation (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting..

Pinion :: Pinion (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis..

Track :: Track (n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint..

Rack :: Rack (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) A bracket. See Bracket.

Barrack :: Barrack (n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings..

Leak :: Leak (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe..

Crackle :: Crackle (n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.

Blackbird :: Blackbird (n.) In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing..

Rackett :: Rackett (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys..

Crack :: Crack (n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense..

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