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Carack :: Carack (n.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.

Rack-rent :: Rack-rent (v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant..

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..

Shunter :: Shunter (n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

Underhung :: Underhung (a.) Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; -- said of a sliding door..

Areola :: Areola (n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing..

Miserere :: Miserere (n.) A small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia..

Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..

Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Coarse seaweed of any kind.

Carrack :: Carrack (n.) See Carack.

Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles..

Dog :: Dog (v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity..

Racketing :: Racketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Racke.

Batten :: Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc..

Parathesis :: Parathesis (n.) The matter contained within brackets.

Racket-tailed :: Racket-tailed (a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers..

Chap :: Chap (v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap..

Corbel :: Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture..

Rack-rent :: Rack-rent (n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent..

Road :: Road (n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another..

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