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Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [Colloq.] Dickens. Thackeray.

The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray.

See Snicker. Thackeray.

r, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. Thackeray. Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. R. G. White.

A little snob. [Jocose] Thackeray.

To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly. Thackeray.

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. [Slang] Thackeray. To split on a rock, to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.

A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.

very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.

ves. "The strawberry leaves on her chariot panels are engraved on her ladyship's heart." Thackeray. -- Strawberry-leaf roller (Zoöl.), any one of several species of moths whose larvæ roll up, and feed upon, the leaves of the strawberry vine; especially, Phoxopteris fragariæ, and Eccopsis permundana. -- Strawberry mot…

to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.

Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. [Slang] Thackeray.

ucking calf. I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. -- Sucking stomach (Zoöl.), the muscular first stomach of…

art thou lost! how on a sudden lost! Milton. He withdrew his opposition all of a sudden. Thackeray.

Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine. [R.] Thackeray.

A swallow-tailed coat. This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. Thackeray.

To flog; to lash. [Slang] Thackeray.

See Tabbinet. Thackeray.