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In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.

To ejaculate parenthetically. [R.] Thackeray.

Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.

Angry; incensed; enraged. [Recent] The irate colonel . . . stood speechless. Thackeray. Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. Dickens.

To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. "Ironed like a malefactor." Sir W. Scott.

One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast. Thackeray.

A part broken off; a fragment. Bp. Hacket.

The driver of a hackney coach. [Slang, Eng.] Carlyle.

A wig; -- so called, perhaps, from being made of, or resembling, Jersey yarn. Thackeray.

in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] Thackeray.

A footman; a flunky. [Slang, Eng.] Thackeray.

To jeopardize. [R.] Thackeray.

The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.

To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage. Thackeray.

A feast; an entertainment. A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray.

Of the nature of kincob; brocaded. Thackeray.

Kinship. Thackeray.

See Kite, n., 6. [Cant] McElrath. Thackeray.

the table with the knuckles, when conquered. "Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate." Thackeray.

the wife of a manor lord. Lady's maid, a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. Thackeray. -- Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.