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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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403 words match “SLANG”

To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]

That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink of liquor, esp. the first one in the morning.

An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. -- Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]

A trick; a swindle. [Slang]

something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. [Slang]

A hand [Slang & Obs.] "We clap our fambles." Beau. & Fl.

FANTOD; FANTAD n.

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received. [Slang] Mayhew.

A shrewd or artful person. [Slang] Fielding. Will is an old file spite of his smooth face. Thackeray. Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. -- Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. -- File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. -…

To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

The hand. [Slang]

Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

Firm-footed; determined. [Slang, U.S.]

A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]

The hand. [Slang]

FLY v. 2 definitions

a hawk. [Obs.] Bacon. To fly a kite (Com.), to raise money on commercial notes. [Cant or Slang]

n the high-laden cart. Prof. Wilson. To fork over or out, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] G. Eliot.

lot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence. [Slang]

GAG v. 2 definitions

To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3. [Slang] Cornill Mag.

Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang] Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting biliou…