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A name for a negro. [Slang]

Disposition to willful wrongdoing; malignity; perversity; cantankerousness; obstinacy. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

and thus replied." Dryden. -- To cut stick, to make off clandestinely or precipitately. [Slang] -- To cut teeth, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce through the gum and appear. -- To have cut one's eyeteeth, to be sharp and knowing. [Colloq.] -- To cut one's wisdom teeth, to come to years of discretion. --…

bination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. [Slang]

A place of low resort. [Slang] The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. J. Hawthorne.

A cheat; a swindle. [Slang, Eng.]

n purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]

preparation, as of opium, used to stupefy or, in the case of a race horse, to stimulate. [Slang or Cant]

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses. [Race- track Slang]

Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [Slang]

A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [Slang]

To put out; to extinguish. [Slang] " To douse the glim." Sir W. Scott.

ite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]

Cunning; wary. [Slang, Eng.] Latham.

A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang]

Effects, in general.[Slang]

r hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

Gold dust; hence: (Slang)

ert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang] -- Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] Marryat. -- Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains ope…

To make or become enthusiastic. [Slang]