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A scamp; a scapegrace. [Spelt also scallawag.] [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

ney hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Hockey; shinney. Bartlett.

as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them. [U. S.] Bartlett.

In a sketchy or incomplete manner. "Sketchily descriptive." Bartlett.

A kind of large, coarse, short trousers formerly worn. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

lection; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand. [Cant, U.S.] Bartlett. Adhesive slate (Min.), a kind of slate of a greenish gray color, which absorbs water rapidly, and adheres to the tongue; whence the name. -- Aluminous slate, or Alum slate (Min.), a kind of slate containing sulphate of…

Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett.

To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

To splash or wet carelessly; as, to sozzle the feet in water. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Money. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

tual residents, of a Territory of the United States to make their own laws. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

To move about like an eel; to squirm. [Low, U.S.] Bartlett.

A large building in which tobacco is stemmed. [U. S.] Bartlett.

See Succotash. Bartlett.