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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,247 words match “LANG”

A footman; a flunky. [Slang, Eng.] Thackeray.

ter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker. But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer. Spenser.

Spruceness. [Slang, Eng.] Pegge (1814).

JEMMY a. 2 definitions

Spruce. [Slang, Eng.] Smart.

turn about and jump Jim Crow," produced in 1835 by T. D. Rice, a famous negro minstrel. [Slang, U. S.]

supernatural being which is supposed to bring bad luck or to cause things to go wrong. [Slang]

JUG n. 2 definitions

A prison; a jail; a lockup. [Slang] Gay.

See Claim, n., 3. -- To jump one's bail, to abscond while at liberty under bail bonds. [Slang, U. S.]

(K is from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian,. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).

A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves. [Slang, Eng.]

Nonsense; stuff; also, fashion; style. [Slang]

A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region of Northern Illinois, allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes.

KID n. 2 definitions

A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on. [Slang] Charles Reade.

KIDDY v. 2 definitions

To deceive; to outwit; to hoax. [Slang] Dickens.

Frolicsome; sportive. [Slang]

To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him. Shak.

cer. Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language Addison.

KNOCK-OUT DROPS n.

Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

KNOCKABOUT a. 2 definitions

Of noisy and violent character. [Theat. Slang]

and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster. [Slang.] Knuckle joint (Mach.), a hinge joint, in which a projection with an eye, on one piece, enters a jaw between two corresponding projections with eyes, on another piece, and is retained by a pin which passes through the eyes a…