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d for purpose of obtaining sugar from them; -- called also, sometimes, sugar bush. [U.S.] Bartlett. -- Sugar pine (Bot.), an immense coniferous tree (Pinus Lambertiana) of California and Oregon, furnishing a soft and easily worked timber. The resinous exudation from the stumps, etc., has a sweetish taste, and has been…

mble by mutual agreement, and without invitation, at the house of a common friend. [U.S.] Bartlett.

The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.] Salt-water tailor (Zoöl.), the bluefish. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. -- Tailor bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nes…

memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [Com. Cant, U.S.] Bartlett.

A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. [U. S.] Bartlett.

To walk with labor, or heavily; to tramp. [Law, U. S.] Bartlett.

To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

aced across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest. [Slang, U. S.] Bartlett.

A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman. [Southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

bwhite. -- Virginia reel, an old English contradance; -- so called in the United States. Bartlett. -- Virginia stock. (Bot.) See Mahon stock.

would drown to walk off into the water; figuratively, to vacate an office by compulsion. Bartlett.

alking papers, or Walking ticket, an order to leave; dismissal, as from office. [Colloq.] Bartlett. -- Walking stick. (a) A stick or staff carried in the hand for hand for support or amusement when walking; a cane. (b) (Zoöl.) A stick insect; -- called also walking straw. See Illust. of Stick insect, under Stick. --…

onveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen. [Written also wangun.] Bartlett.

vessel. Shak. -- Under the weather, ill; also, financially embarrassed. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett. -- Weather box. Same as Weather house, below. Thackeray. -- Weather breeder, a fine day which is supposed to presage foul weather. -- Weather bureau, a popular name for the signal service. See Signal service, under Si…

o lash with stripes; to wale; to thrash; to drub. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell. Bartlett.

brupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over. Bartlett.

where the height of the water is so variable that a fixed wharf would be useless. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Wharf rat. (Zoöl.) (a) The common brown rat. (b) A neglected boy who lives around the wharfs. [Slang]

A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.