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; -- in distinction from a skirmish. -- To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]

A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [Slang] It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey. Dickens.

A high, tapering silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

[Slang]

A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

to polish life or manners. Milton. To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary. [Slang] W. H. Russell.

Twenty-five pounds sterling. [Slang, Eng.]

One who cleans pots; a scullion. [Slang, U. S.]

A tailor; -- so called in contempt. [Old slang] L'Estrange.

Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [Slang] Dickens.

Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier. Purser's name (Naut.), a false name. [Slang]

To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. -- To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang]

A quadrangle; hence, a prison. [Cant or Slang]

Counterfeit money. [Slang] To shove the queer, to put counterfeit money in circulation. [Slang]

A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison. [Slang] "Flogged or whipped in quod." T. Hughes.

A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]

A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately. [Slang, U. S.] "A whole raft of folks." W. D. Howells. Raft bridge.

A sail, or any piece of canvas. [Nautical Slang] Our ship was a clipper with every rag set. Lowell. Rag bolt, an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place. -- Rag carpet, a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow of cloth sewed together, end to end. -- Rag dust, fine particles of ground-up rags, used…