Wordscapes Level 1799, Fall 7 Answers

The Wordscapes level 1799 is a part of the set Hills and comes in position 7 of Fall pack. Players who will solve it will recieve 72 brilliance additional points which help you imporve your rankings in leaderboard.
The tray contains 7 letters which are ‘HTECPKU’, with those letters, you can place 16 words in the crossword. and 7 words that aren’t in the puzzle worth the equivalent of 7 coin(s).This level has no extra word.

Wordscapes level 1799 Fall 7 Answers :

wordscapes level 1799 answer

Bonus Words:

  • HECK
  • HEP
  • KETCH
  • PEC
  • PET
  • PUCE
  • PUKE

Regular Words:

  • CHUTE
  • CUE
  • CUP
  • CUT
  • CUTE
  • ETCH
  • HUE
  • HUT
  • KEPT
  • KETCHUP
  • PECK
  • PUCK
  • PUT
  • TECH
  • THE
  • TUCK

Definitions:

  • Chute : 1. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel. 2. See Shoot.
  • Cue : 1. The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue. 2. The last words of a play actor’s speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword. When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. Shak. 3. A hint or intimation. Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house. Swift. 4. The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play. Were it my cueto fight, I should have known it Without a prompter. Shak. 5. Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens. 6. A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.nnTo form into a cue; to braid; to twist.nnA small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.] Note: The term was formerly current in the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a portion. Nares. Hast thou worn Gowns in the university, tossed logic, Sucked philosophy, eat cues Old Play.
  • Cup : 1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like. 2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak. 3. pl. Repeated potations; social or exessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry. Thence from cups to civil broils. Milton. 4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Matt. xxvi. 39. 5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip’s golden cup no more I see. Shenstone. 6. (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman.- Cup and can, familiar companions. — Dry cup, Wet cup (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet cupping. See under Cupping. — To be in one’s cups, to be drunk.nn1. To supply with cups of wine. [R.] Cup us, till the world go round. Shak. 2. (Surg.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping. 3. (Mech.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
  • Cut : 1. To sparate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide. You must cut this flesh from off his breast. Shak. Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. Pope. 2. To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap. Thy servants can skill to cut timer. 2. Chron. ii. 8 3. To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails. 4. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse. 5. To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out. Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton. 6. To wound or hurt deeply the snsibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick. The man was cut to the heart. Addison. 7. To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles. 8. To refuse to recognize; to ignorre; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one’s acquaintance. [Colloq.] 9. To absent one’s self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc. [Colloq.] An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity. Thomas Hamilton. To cut a caper. See under Caper. — To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change the cards to be dealt. — To cut a dash or a figure, to make a display. [Colloq.] — To cut down. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. “Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia.” Knolles. (b) To put down; to abash; to humble, [Obs] “So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator.” Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. (d) (Naut.) To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a sloop. — To cut the knot or the Gordian knot, to dispose of a difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary action, rather than by skill or patience. — To cut lots, to determine lots by cuttings cards; to draw lots. — To cut off. (a) To sever; to separate. I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my brother’s. Shak. (b) To put an untimely death; to put an end to; to destroy. “Irencut off by martyrdom.” Addison. (c) To interrupt; as, to cut off communication; to cut off (the flow of) steam from (the boiler to) a steam engine. (d) To intercept; as,, to cut off an enemy’s retreat. (e) To end; to finish; as, to cut off further debate. — To cut out. (a) To remove by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board. (b) To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment. ” A large forest cut out into walks.” Addison. (c) To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out work for another day. “Every man had cut out a place for himself.” Addison. (d) To step in and take the place of; to supplant; as, to cut out a rival. [Colloq.] (e) To debar. “I am cut out from anything but common acknowledgments.” Pope. (f) To seize and carry off (a vessel) from a harbor, or from under the guns of an enemy. — To cut to pieces. (a) To cut into pieces; as, to cut cloth to pieces. (b) To slaughter; as, to cut an army to pieces. — To cut a play (Drama), to shorten it by leaving out passages, to adapt it for the stage. — To cut rates (Railroads, etc.), to reduce the charges for transportation below the rates established between competing lines. — To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a sudden termination. “Achilles cut him short, and thus replied.” Dryden. — To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slang] — To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. — To have cut one’s eyeteeth, to be sharp and knowing. [Colloq.] — To cut one’s wisdom teeth, to come to years of discretion. — To cut under, to undersell; as, to cut under a competitor in trade. — To cut up. (a) To cut to pieces; as, to cut up an animal, or bushes. (b) To damage or destroy; to injure; to wound; as, to cut up a book or its author by severe criticism. “This doctrine cuts up all government by the roots.” Locke. (c) To afflict; to discourage; to demoralize; as, the death of his friend cut him up terribly. [Colloq.] Thackeray.nn1. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well. 2. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese. Holmes. 3. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. He saved the lives of thousands by manner of cutting for the stone. Pope. 4. To make a stroke with a whip. 5. To interfere, as a horse. 6. To move or make off quickly. [Colloq.] 7. To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to schange the order of the cards to be dealt. To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field. — To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; — from the cutting of a ship’s cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. [Colloq.] — To cut in or into, to interrupt; to jont an anything suddenly. — To cut up. (a) To play pranks. [Colloq.] (b) To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one’s death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. [Slang.] “When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis.” Thackeray.nn1. An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut. 2. A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip. 3. That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, snapped his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. W. Irving. 4. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad. This great cut or ditch Secostris . . . purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper. Knolles. 5. The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut. 6. A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber. It should be understood, moreover, . . . that the group are not arbitrary cuts, but natural groups or types. Dana. 7. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts. 8. (a) The act of dividing a pack cards. (b) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it 9. Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment. With eyes severe and beard of formal cut. Shak. 10. A common work horse; a gelding. [Obs.] He’ll buy me a cut, forth for to ride. Beau. & Fl. 11. The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise. [College Cant] 12. A skein of yarn. Wright. A cut in rates (Railroad), a reduction in fare, freight charges, etc., below the established rates. — A short cut, a cross route which shortens the way and cuts off a circuitous passage. — The cut of one’s jib, the general appearance of a person. [Colloq.] — To draw cuts, to draw lots, as of paper, etc., cut unequal lengths. Now draweth cut . . . The which that hath the shortest shall begin. Chaucer.nn1. Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument. 2. Formed or shaped as by cuttting; carved. 3. Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang] Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. — Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. — Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. — Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.
  • Cute : Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning. [Colloq.]
  • Etch : A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer.nn1. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid. Note: The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then scored or scratched with a needle, or similar instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the lines thus laid bare. 2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton. 3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.] There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. Locke.nnTo practice etching; to make etchings.
  • Hue : 1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. “Flowers of all hue.” Milton. Hues of the rich unfolding morn. Keble. 2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.nnA shouting or vociferation. Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to aid in retaking him. Burrill.
  • Hut : A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure. Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe.
  • Kept : of Keep. Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.
  • Ketchup : A sauce. See Catchup.
  • Peck : 1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. “A peck of provender.” Shak. 2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. “A peck of uncertainties and doubts.” Milton.nn1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree. 2. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements. 3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; — often with up. Addison. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. Shak. 4. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.nn1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument. Carew. 2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat. [The hen] went pecking by his side. Dryden. To peck at, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease.nnA quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
  • Puck : 1. (Mediæval Myth.) A celebrated fairy, “the merry wanderer of the night;” — called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton. 2. (Zoöl.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
  • Put : A pit. [Obs.] Chaucer.nn3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth. Chaucer.nnA rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person. Queer country puts extol Queen Bess’s reign. Bramston. What droll puts the citizens seem in it all. F. Harrison.nn1. To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; — nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out). His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. Jer. Taylor. 2. To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight. This present dignity, In which that I have put you. Chaucer. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Gen. iii. 15. He put no trust in his servants. Job iv. 18. When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. Milton. In the mean time other measures were put in operation. Sparks. 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. Wyclif (John xv. 13). 5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; — formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case. Let us now put that ye have leave. Chaucer. Put the perception and you put the mind. Berkeley. These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. Milton. All this is ingeniously and ably put. Hare. 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. These wretches put us upon all mischief. Swift. Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. Sir W. Scott. Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. Milton. 7. To throw or cast with a pushing motion “overhand,” the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight. 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. Raymond. Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. Bp. Hall. — To put about (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. — To put away. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. — To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace. — To put by. (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. “Smiling put the question by.” Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by money. — To put down. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices. (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion of traitors. Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. Shak. Sugar hath put down the use of honey. Bacon. (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one’s name. — To put forth. (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into action; to exert; as, to put forth strength. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like. (d) To publish, as a book. — To put forward. (a) To advance to a position of prominence responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour. — To put in. (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while others are discoursing. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place. — To put off. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.” Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle. I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. Boyle. We might put him off with this answer. Bentley. (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. — To put on or upon. (a) To invest one’s self with, as clothes; to assume. “Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.” L’Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] “This came handsomely to put on the peace.” Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. “That which thou puttest on me, will I bear.” 2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. “The stork found he was put upon.” L’Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. “This caution will put them upon considering.” Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. Burrill. — To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. — To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. For the certain knowledge of that knowledge of that truthput you o’er to heaven and to my mother. Shak. (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. — To put the hand to or unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one’s hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. “He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods.” Ex. xxii. 11. — To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] — To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. “That dares not put it to the touch.” Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. Dickens. — To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. — To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. — To put to death, to kill. — To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. — To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. — To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. “O gentle lady, do not put me to ‘t.” Shak. — To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. — To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. — To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. — To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. — To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] “Such national injuries are not to be put up.” Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. “She has been frightened; she has been put up.” C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. “Himself never put up any of the rent.” Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; — followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. — To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang] Syn. — To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. — Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object.nn1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. To steer; to direct one’s course; to go. His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. Dryden. 3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. To put about (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. — To put back (Naut.), to turn back; to return. “The French . . . had put back to Toulon.” Southey. — To put forth. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. “Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.” Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. — To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. — To put in for. (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; — said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one’s self; to stand as a candidate for. Locke. — To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. — To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. — To put over (Naut.), to sail over or across. — To put to sea (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. — To put up. (a) To take lodgings; to lodge. (b) To offer one’s self as a candidate. L’Estrange. — To put up to, to advance to. [Obs.] “With this he put up to my lord.” Swift. — To put up with. (a) To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or affront. (b) To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.nn1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. “A forced put.” L’Estrange. 2. A certain game at cards. Young. 3. A privilege which one party buys of another to “put” (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date. [Brokers’ Cant] A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price. Johnson’s Cyc.nnA prostitute. [Obs.]”,123
  • The : See Thee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Milton.nnA word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning. Note: The was originally a demonstrative pronoun, being a weakened form of that. When placed before adjectives and participles, it converts them into abstract nouns; as, the sublime and the beautiful. Burke. The is used regularly before many proper names, as of rivers, oceans, ships, etc.; as, the Nile, the Atlantic, the Great Eastern, the West Indies, The Hague. The with an epithet or ordinal number often follows a proper name; as, Alexander the Great; Napoleon the Third. The may be employed to individualize a particular kind or species; as, the grasshopper shall be a burden. Eccl. xii. 5.nnBy that; by how much; by so much; on that account; — used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform. “Yet not the more cease I.” Milton. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate. Milton.
  • Tuck : A long, narrow sword; a rapier. [Obs.] Shak. He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length. Sir W. Scot.nnThe beat of a drum. Scot.nn1. To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one’s sleeves. 2. To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress. 3. To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one’s arm, or into a pocket. 4. Etym: [Perhaps originally, to strike, beat: cf. F. toquer to touch. Cf. Tocsin.] To full, as cloth. [Prov. Eng.]nnTo contract; to draw together. [Obs.]nn1. A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait. 2. A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; — called also tuck-net. 3. A pull; a lugging. [Obs.] See Tug. Life of A. Wood. 4. (Naut.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern. 5. Food; pastry; sweetmeats. [Slang] T. Hughes.


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