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The face or mouth. [Slang] Thackeray.

A griping of the intestines; colic. [Slang] Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs Beau. & Fl.

-- To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]

Audacity; assurance. [Slang]

A person in a superior position in life; a nobleman. [Slang]

In a nobby manner. [Slang]

Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable. [Slang]

f joint, to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] -- To thrust one's nose into, to meddle officiously in. -- To wipe one's nose of, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]

Second-rate; inferior; small. [Slang, U.S.]

A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. [Slang]

y); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang, U. S.]

ds] patter their doleful prayers. Longfellow. To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]

A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel. [British Slang] See Bobby.

A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg." To screw papal authority to the highest peg. Barrow. And took your grandess down a peg. Hudibras. Peg ladder, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted. -- Peg tankard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the li…

hausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out. [Slang, U.S.]

elicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. [Slang] Blue pigeon (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); -- called also black-faced crow. -- Green pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to the family Treronidæ. -- Imperial pigeon (Zoöl.), any one of the large Asia…

The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. [Slang] Banking pin (Horol.), a pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion. -- Pin drill (Mech.), a drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore. -- Pin grass. (Bo…

To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts. [Slang, Eng.]