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The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. Barrow.

A place where swine are kept.

A pledging; suretyship. [Obs.]

Priggism.

The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

Wantonness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.

A snug, cozy place. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Exhibition on the stage. [Obs.]

The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation…

Thuggee.

Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. [Colloq.] togs

Villages; a district of villages. [Obs.] "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.

iment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. Locke. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving.

The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.

A wig or wigs; false hair. [R.] A. Trollope.

The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness. [R.] The . . . zigzaggery of my father's approaches. Sterne.

Operative surgery.

ing to anthropopathy. [R.] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. Woven with antics and wild imagery. Spenser.