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-- Over the left shoulder, or Over the left, an old but still current colloquialism, or slang expression, used as an aside to indicate insincerity, negation, or disbelief; as, he said it, and it is true, -- over the left.

A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. [Slang, Eng.]

A house or lodging. [Old Slang] B. Jonson.

Language; speech; dialect. [Slang]

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

stentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors. [Slang]

nder the table. [Eng.] -- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, to dine with him. [Slang]

A charmer of women. [Slang] London Punch.

Money. [Slang, Eng.]

To take one's self off; to go. [Slang] As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.

ob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians. [Slang] Spectator. Macaulay.

aised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship. -- Monkey shine, monkey trick. [Slang, U.S.] -- Monkey trick, a mischievous prank. Saintsbury. -- Monkey wheel. See Gin block, under 5th Gin. -- Monkey wrench, a wrench or spanner having a movable jaw.

Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

k. (b) A cap with a broad, projecting, square top; -- worn by students in some colleges. [Slang]

ve in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. [Slang]

A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl. [Slang or Colloq.]

A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [Slang]

cana). (b) The clapper rail. -- Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. [Slang] - - Mud minnow (Zoöl.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. -- Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. -- Mud puppy (Zoöl.), the menobra…