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au; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. [Slang] Dickens.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]

A queer old fellow; an old chap; an old woman. [Contemptuous, Slang or Dial.]

Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

A light or candle. [Slang] Dickens. Douse the glim, put out the light. [Slang]

Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang] I said you were a gnostic fellow. Sir W. Scott.

To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] -- To go below (Naut), to go below deck. -- To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander. -- To go beyond. See under Beyond. -- To go by, to pass away un…

bation. Goldsmith. To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

A spoon. [Prov. Eng. or Slang]

e Good, Duke of Burgundy; -- called also Toison d'Or. -- Golden grease, a bribe; a fee. [Slang] -- Golden hair (Bot.), a South African shrubby composite plant with golden yellow flowers, the Chrysocoma Coma-aurea. -- Golden Horde (Hist.), a tribe of Mongolian Tartars who overran and settled in Southern Russia early i…

A pickpocket or thief. [Eng. Slang] Dickens.

-- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. [Slang]

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [Slang, U. S.] Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

A swindler; a knave; a cheat. [Slang] Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek. Sat. Rev.

To study hard for examination. [College Slang]

A grogshop. [Slang, U. S.]

Weakened in a fight so as to stagger; -- said of pugilists. [Cant or Slang]

A four-wheeled cab. [Slang, Eng.]

To supply with food. [Slang] Dickens.