Definition of peck

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Peck (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument..

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Dot :: Dot (n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark..
Grysbok :: Grysbok (n.) A small South African antelope (Neotragus melanotis). It is speckled with gray and chestnut, above; the under parts are reddish fawn..
Speck :: Speck (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money..
Spaky :: Spaky (a.) Specky.
Henpeck :: Henpeck (v. t.) To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Epha :: Epha (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer..
Sheld :: Sheld (a.) Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald.
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards..
Speckling :: Speckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speckl.
Speckt :: Speckt (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.
Kenspeckle :: Kenspeckle (a.) Having so marked an appearance as easily to be recognized.
Caligo :: Caligo (n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself..
Peck :: Peck (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up..
Ruble :: Ruble (n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents..
Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.
Pintos :: Pintos (n. pl.) A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).
Mailed :: Mailed (a.) Spotted; speckled.
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