Vocabulary : Rick to Ricochetting
Rick : A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching. ;; To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.Ricker : A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.
Ricketish : Rickety.
Rickets : A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
Rickety : Affected with rickets. ;; Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
