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sh] Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [Sailor's slang] W. C. Russell.

planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.

A low-grade actor or performer. [Theatrical Slang]

ly pressed by want or necessity; without money or resources; as, hard up for amusements. [Slang]

To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him. [Slang]

me; full time for the occasion. (b) A time of great excitement or enjoyment; a carousal. [Slang] -- High treason, treason against the sovereign or the state, the highest civil offense. See Treason.

A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. [Slang]

To be on a tramp; to foot. [Slang, U.S.] To hoof it, to foot it.

se marine (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery person; one of a mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang] -- Horse mussel (Zoöl.), a large, marine mussel (Modiola modiolus), found on the northern shores of Europe and America. -- Horse nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the Solanum Carolinense. -- Horse parsley.…

All right; in a good condition; also, even; square. [Slang, U. S.]

Breeches; trousers. [Colloq. or Slang] Ld. Lytton.

Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang] Ivory black. See under Black, n. -- Ivory gull (Zoöl.), a white Arctic gull (Larus eburneus). -- Ivory nut (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the Phytephas macroarpa, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whiti…

he house of liberty. Milton. Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. -- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and oth…

A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling.

unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.

One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.

The driver of a hackney coach. [Slang, Eng.] Carlyle.

Impudent or abusive talk. [Slang] H. Kingsley. Jaw bit (Railroad), a bar across the jaws of a pedestal underneath an axle box. -- Jaw breaker, a word difficult to pronounce. [Obs.] -- Jaw rope (Naut.), a rope which holds the jaws of a gaff to the mast. -- Jaw tooth, a molar or grinder; a back tooth.…

Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk. [Slang] H. Kingsley.