Word of the Day: Catachrestical
See Pockmarked.
Pockmarked; pitted.
See Pockmarked.
1. A small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles.
3. A certain quantity; as a pocket of hops, as in other cases we use sack. [Not used in America.]
2. To take clandestinely.
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
4. A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
5. A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
6. A hole containing water.
7. A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
8. Same as Pouch.
1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
A small book of paper covered with leather; used for carrying papers in the pocket.
A portable looking glass.
The opening into a pocket.
1. Money for the pocket or for occasional expenses.
of Pocketful
A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
Convexity Roget’s Thesaurus §250
N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation|, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness
V. be prominent, project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge|, bunch, jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out, stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up, swell over, hang over, bend over, beetle, render prominent, raise 307, emboss, chase, belly out
Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated &c, (expanded) 194
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