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Louisiana; -- a nickname alluding to the device on its seal.

Florida; -- a nickname.

locks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4. -- Pig yoke (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant. -- A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.]

Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.

Illinois; -- a nickname.

A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.

A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Toone.

Nevada; -- a nickname.

A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. [U.S.]

A nickname for a surgeon.

A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike. [Cant]

Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.

North Dakota; -- a nickname.

An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname. [Sometimes less correctly written soubriquet.]

Oklahoma; -- a nickname.

A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. -- Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. -- Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. -- Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucke…

Illinois; -- a nickname.

Kansas; a nickname.

One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.