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raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang]

High-spirited; rampageous. [Slang] Dickens.

A forcible oath or lie. [Slang] Bp. Parker.

Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was supplied with the ready. [Slang] Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts. Arbuthnot.

To take from the grave; to disinter. [Slang]

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]

To beat soundly. [Slang]

hless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. [Slang.]

Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc. [Slang.]

A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. [Eng. Slang.]

w, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters. [Slang, U.S.]

One fit to be hanged. [Old Slang] Douce.

Bad small beer. [Slang]

Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens.

Strange; odd. [Slang]

o banter severely. -- To run into the ground, to carry to an absurd extreme; to overdo. [Slang, U.S.] -- To run off, to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten metal from a furnace. -- To run on (Print.), to carry on or continue, as the type for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.…

A detective. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]

hat can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. [Slang, Western U.S.]

or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]