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A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

A man slave, or one bound to service without wages. "To enfranchise bondmen." Macaulay.

Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag. [Polit. slang, U. S.]

A swage or die used for shaping metals.

taining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

lsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.

To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.

A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.

A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones.

, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing. Addison.

A British wagtail.

actice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

ho bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth.

of Job, in conduct and diction. Macaulay. Conduct money (Naut.), a portion of a seaman's wages retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory.

rts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.