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Pining; sickly; peakish. [Colloq.]

happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.

Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." Macaulay.

A quarter of Constantinople which, after the Turkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.

One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar.

he American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.

A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.

Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.

The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.

A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes. German prune (Bot.), a large dark purple plum, of oval shape, often one-sided. It is much used for preserving, either dried or in sirup. Prune tree. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the genus Prunus (P. domestica), which produces prunes.…

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Wild; roving; rakish. [Low]

A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more. Dryden.

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.

A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve. See Army organization, above.

A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was chancellor of the empire, etc.