These are the meanings of the letters KICCPPKA when you unscramble them.
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Kick (v. t.)
To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.
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Kick (v. i.)
To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn.
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Kick (v. i.)
To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc.
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Kick (n.)
A blow with the foot or feet; a striking or thrust with the foot.
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Kick (n.)
The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
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Kick (n.)
A projection in a mold, to form a depression in the surface of the brick.
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Kick (n.)
The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged.
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Pack (n.)
A pact.
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Pack (n.)
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
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Pack (n.)
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
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Pack (n.)
A number or quantity of connected or similar things
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Pack (n.)
A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
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Pack (n.)
A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
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Pack (n.)
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
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Pack (n.)
A shook of cask staves.
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Pack (n.)
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
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Pack (n.)
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
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Pack (n.)
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
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Pack (n.)
A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.
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Pack (n.)
To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.
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Pack (n.)
To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.
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Pack (n.)
To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
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Pack (n.)
Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.
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Pack (n.)
To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
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Pack (n.)
To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
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Pack (n.)
To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.
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Pack (n.)
To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
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Pack (n.)
To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
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Pack (n.)
To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.
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Pack (v. i.)
To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
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Pack (v. i.)
To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
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Pack (v. i.)
To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
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Pack (v. i.)
To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
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Pack (v. i.)
To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
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Pica (n.)
The genus that includes the magpies.
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Pica (n.)
A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
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Pica (n.)
A service-book. See Pie.
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Pica (n.)
A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
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Pick (v.)
To throw; to pitch.
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Pick (v.)
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
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Pick (v.)
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
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Pick (v.)
To open (a lock) as by a wire.
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Pick (v.)
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
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Pick (v.)
To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
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Pick (v.)
To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.
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Pick (v.)
To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
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Pick (v.)
To trim.
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Pick (v. i.)
To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
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Pick (v. i.)
To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
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Pick (v. i.)
To steal; to pilfer.
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Pick (n.)
A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
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Pick (n.)
A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
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Pick (n.)
A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
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Pick (n.)
Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
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Pick (n.)
That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
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Pick (n.)
A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
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Pick (n.)
That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
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Pick (n.)
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
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Pika (n.)
Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.