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n.
A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
n.
The jigger. See Jigger.
n.
A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
n.
Pique; offense.
n.
A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
n.
A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
n.
See Pickeerer.
n.
A game at cards. See Piquet.
v. t.
To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
imp. & p. p.
of Pique
n.
See Picket.
n.
In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
n.
Keenly felt desire; a longing.
v. t.
To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
n.
The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
v. i.
To cause annoyance or irritation.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pique
v. i.
See Pickeer.
n.
See Piquet.
v. t.
To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
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