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of poker. To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]

To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [Slang]

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

A stiff wide cravat; a stock. [Slang]

A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. [Slang, Eng.] There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

A coachman [Slang]

A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward. [Slang, Eng.] It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. Thackeray.

Pert. [Slang]

To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. [Slang] To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]

A policeman. [Slang] Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly

To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. [Slang]

A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously. [Slang]

A boy or man of any age or station. [Slang] There's a gentry cove here. Wit's Recreations (1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. Mrs. Browning.

tle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]

l of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]

A burglar. [Slang]

alings. Crooked whisky, whisky on wich the paiment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] Barlett.

ne's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]

-- To do a thing on the cross, to act dishonestly; -- opposed to acting on the square. [Slang] -- To take up the cross, to bear troubles and afflictions with patience from love to Christ.