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A long pole on two wheels, used in hauling logs. [Scot.] Jamieson.

The menhaden.

The menhaded.

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

One who dresses showily; a prinker. "A pranker or a dancer." Burton.

One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

See Chancre.

hing very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. [Colloq.] Spanker boom (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is attached. See Illust. of Ship.

See Canker, n., 1.

longed exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

e; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. " A balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. [Obs.]

The business of a bank or of a banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

ronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English. Or take, Hibernis, thy still ranker brogue. Lloyd.

terials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor. -- Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. W. Irving.

An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.