This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897* edition. Excerpt: ...quite usual in the United States. Gouge, to. To thrust from its socket the eye of an adversary during a fight. See the Bon Gaullier Ballads (American section), passim, for examples of this and other Americanisms quite correctly employed. Governmental. Relating to Government. The employment of the word ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897* edition. Excerpt: ...quite usual in the United States. Gouge, to. To thrust from its socket the eye of an adversary during a fight. See the Bon Gaullier Ballads (American section), passim, for examples of this and other Americanisms quite correctly employed. Governmental. Relating to Government. The employment of the word " government" for the political party in power is not usual in America; " government' means the constitutional machinery for carrying on the business of the country. The other is called the "Administration." Grab game, the. ('N.) Stealing, or any kind of swindling. Grade. A degree in rank or quality: also, a step or degree in any ascending or descending series.--Webster: gradient (on a railroad). Graded, Grading. As participles from a supposititious or obsolete rerb "to grade"--to arrange in order of some sort. " To grade " is given by Webster. Grain. Wheat: rye: oats, etc. See Corn for a differentiation of the English and American uses. Grandacious. Superlative of grand. Also, "grandiferous." (Negro.) Granite State, the. New Hampshire. Grass, to hunt. To fall down. Not " to decamp," as has been stated. Graven image, hungry as. Very hungry indeed. (Meta phorical.) From the supposed savagery and rapacity of heathen divinities, perhaps. Grease!lightning, like. (Hyperbole.) Very rapid. Greaser. A Mexican or low class Spanish American. Great Scott. Euphemistic oath of no great force, and very uncertain origin. Greenback. The legal tender (paper currency) of the United States. So called from an engraved design in green ink on the back. Green Mountain City. Montpelier, Vermont. Green Mountain State. Vermont. ("Vert Mont.") Gripsack. A handbag. Grocery. In the South-West, a drinking saloon (perhaps corrupted from " groggery "). Elsewhere, a...
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