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A four-wheeled cab. [Slang, Eng.]

To supply with food. [Slang] Dickens.

efixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

h] Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [Sailor's slang] W. C. Russell.

planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

The language used by the gypsies. Shak.

sisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies.

ound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some words, mostly derived or introduced from foreign languages, h following c and g indicates that those consonants have the hard sound before e, i, and y, as in chemistry, chiromancy, chyle, Ghent, Ghibelline, etc.; in some others, ch has the sound of sh, as in chicane. See Guide t…

Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.

A low-grade actor or performer. [Theatrical Slang]

Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. Hamitic languages, the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Somâli Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic. Keith Johnson.

Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. Pope.

y pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. [Slang]

To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him. [Slang]

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.