Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. tukken, LG. tukken, to pull up, tuck up, entice; akin to OD. tocken, to entice, G. zucken, to draw with a short and quick motion, and E. tug,. See Tug
In literature:
Voters could come to de window, put deir arms thru and tuck de vote in a slit in de boxes.
"Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1" by Various
But he tuck it good natured an' jest kep' on a chawin' o' his tobacker.
"The Starbucks" by Opie Percival Read
She caught the flamingo and tucked it away under her arm, that it might not escape again.
"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Robin liked her best, and Rosalyn Crane felt this and promptly tucked Robin under her wing.
"Red-Robin" by Jane Abbott
No; but I found something else tucked away in an inner pocket which struck me as bearing quite pointedly upon this case.
"The House in the Mist" by Anna Katharine Green
Milly spoiled two shirts this afternoon, but her mother bought us some beautiful readymade ones instead, with tucked fronts.
"Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley" by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
It had six crape tucks, of which fact I was very proud, having heard a good deal said about it.
"Six to Sixteen" by Juliana Horatia Ewing
She had a second-class certificate tucked away among her belongings.
"North of Fifty-Three" by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Remove the basting from the first row of braid and tuck the edge of the fabric under.
"Make Your Own Hats" by Gene Allen Martin
He saw her tuck it in her waist and rein Boyar round toward the gate.
"Overland Red" by Henry Herbert Knibbs
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In poetry:
'Tis tucking in the carriage,
'Tis asking for a call;
'Tis long good-nights in tender lights,
And that is—no, not all!
"What Is Flirtation?" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Fie, silly bird!" I answered, "tuck
Your head beneath your wing,
And go to sleep;"--but o'er and o'er
He asked the self-same thing.
"The Common Question" by John Greenleaf Whittier
She sleeps within her narrow cot,
Safe “tucked in” from the night;
Resigned, I leave the solemn spot,
“God doeth all things right.”
"At My Mother's Grave" by Frank Barbour Coffin
Then again she comes to the curb
to call the ice-man, fish-man, and stands
shy, uncorseted, tucking in
stray ends of hair, and I compare her
to a fallen leaf.
"The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams
The mules they stopped about a rod
From me, and went to feedin'
'Longside the road, upon the sod,
But Jones (which he had tuck a tod)
Not knowin', kept a-readin'.
"Jones's Private Argyment" by Sidney Lanier
That's all. At least, as far as I'm concerned,
I took no further interest in the show.
The things wot 'appened subsekint I know
Frum wot I learned
When I come-to, tucked in me little bed,
Me chest on fire, an' cold packs on me 'ead.
"Spike Wegg" by C J Dennis
In news:
Storing the leaves is a snap--they tuck away under the top.
Tuck Younis, then assistant police chief in San Jose, 2007.
Over the millennia, across cultures, some have buried, some burned, some tucked their dead into a bog.
) Produced by Matthew Gordon, Kevin Abrams, Mike Jones, Nate Tuck, Amile Wilson, Art Jones, Merilee Holt.
Barack tucks me in every night .
He may be the leader of the free world, but he still takes a moment to tuck his wife in at bedtime.
You want to tuck into the federal regulations dealing with migratory birds.
Tuck, Osi, JPP -- a Super combination.
They have guns tucked into their belts.
Food Reviews & Stories We know Portland teenagers are all tucked in bed by the city's curfew, which is 10:15 pm on school nights and midnight on weekends.
The Giants' Tuck last week characterized the Cowboys offensive line as "confused.".
Walmart has been a non-player in toys this year, according to Eric Johnson, director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.
Thank You, New York, For Tucking In My Tag.
The Monster Who Would Tuck You in at Night.
Tucked into a quiet corner of midtown on Harvard Ave is a popular little dive bar with cheap drinks and a cast of T-Town characters and regulars.
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In science:
And here we depart from roughly chronological order to tuck in a few other sorts of strings.
Astrophysics in 2006
They correspond to an m-dimensional Brownian sheet, an m-dimensional Brownian pillow, and an m-dimensional tucked Brownian sheet, respectively.
An extremal problem with applications to testing multivariate independence
Proof The proof follows the pattern of (Neuhaus, 1971, Sec. 4, 5), where, among others, weak convergence of the process WM ,n(x) = √n (Fn (x) − xM ) to a tucked Brownian sheet is established.
An extremal problem with applications to testing multivariate independence
Where would the state get more servants? Would the rest of society trust these servants? Science needed many ideological nips, tucks, and lifts.
Physics Education Research: Or it's so hard to find good help these days
Study of the probability distribution PN(Q), for D(x) with N zeros corresponding to eigenvalues of the Gaussian unitary ensemble (GUE), supports Tuck’s observation that large values of Q are very rare for the Riemann zeros.
Tuck's incompressibility function: statistics for zeta zeros and eigenvalues
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