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exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]

Very; excessively. [Slang]

The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning. -- Back slang, a kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair,…

To cheat; to wheedle. [Slang] Foote.

An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.

A pistol. [Slang] Dickens.

A pair of pistols. [Slang]

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." Steele.

A magistrate or policeman. [Slang, Eng.]

A sixpence. [Slang, Eng.]

The language spoken in Bengal.

hara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

A treat, or drink money. [Slang]

Further away; at a distance; yonder. Lo, where beyond he lyeth languishing. Spenser.

by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similar…

Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv.