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The salagane.

The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

Low, vulgar, unauthorized language; a popular but unauthorized word, phrase, or mode of expression; also, the jargon of some particular calling or class in society; low popular cant; as, the slang of the theater, of college, of sailors, etc.

One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan. [Colloq. or Humorous] W. Irving.

Quality of being slangy.

Slangy. [R.] John Bee.

Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang. [Written also slangey.]

Dilatation of the capillary vessels.

Telangiectasis.

See Ihlang-ihlang.

Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty, as well as by the abuses of power. Madison.

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain. Barrow.

Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.

Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners. John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

[Cant] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.