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Strong malt liquor. [Cant] Prior.

A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.] Buckeye State, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees abound there.

from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]

ain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show. [Cant or Slang, U.S.] All that flourish about right of search was bunkum -- all that brag about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show…

A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant] Her . . . daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns. Goldsmith.

Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. Bp. Popteus.

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant] Johnson.

l different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. [Cant] Thackeray.

in, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant]

Political operations preceding an election; a canvass. [Cant, U. S.]

he family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

on of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement. [Cant, U. S.]

if., a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.

A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper.

er who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.

A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.