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The devil. [A vulgar euphemism.] I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.

ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

To put up with; to endure. [Prov.] Dickens.

In a buzz; buzzing. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] Dickens.

; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight." Dickens.

A choice taw or marble. Dickens.

ded as a substitute; a makeshift. He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. Dickens.

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.

Smeared over. Dickens.

o avail themselves of names. Milton. I have availed myself of the very first opportunity. Dickens.

s; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The insufficiency of the ballot. Dickens.

A pistol. [Slang] Dickens.

ome illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal. "A Barmecide feast." Dickens.

cles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng.] Dickens.

lids at Bath. "People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs." Dickens. -- Bath metal, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper. -- Bath note, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. -- Bath stone, a species of limestone (oölite) found near Bath, us…

; tired; fatigued; exhausted. [Colloq.] Quite beat, and very much vexed and disappointed. Dickens.

Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.) "The night of her bespeak." Dickens.