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Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest. [Slang, U. S.] Bartlett.

A pawnbroker. [Slang] Thackeray. My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] - - Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] -- To bring up. See under Bring, v. t. -- To come up with. See under Come, v. i. -- To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i. -- To draw up. See under Draw, v. t. -- To grow up, to grow to maturity. -- Up anchor (Naut.), th…

To depart quickly; to depart from. [Written also vamos, and vamoose.] [Slang, Eng. & U. S.]

. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.

Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. [Slang]

Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang] Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds. Tusser.

who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it. [Written also welcher.] [Slang, Eng.]

Refreshed with liquor; drunk. [Slang] Prior. Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc. See under Blanket, Dock, etc. -- Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]

An imaginary creature, of undefined character. [Slang]

rat. (Zoöl.) (a) The common brown rat. (b) A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. [Slang]

To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass. [Slang, U. S.]

g requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold. [Slang]

A blow taking away the breath. [Slang]

An army bugler or trumpeter; any performer on a wind instrument. [Slang]

a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing. -- To wipe the nose of, to cheat. [Old Slang]

One that taps, or cuts in on, telegraph wires and intercepts messages; hence (Slang),

Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing. [Sailors' slang]

An abbreviation of Yankee. [Slang]