springs that break forth sometimes on the Woulds of Yorkshire ; looked upon as a prognostic of famine and scarcity. N. H.
·pl of <<Gypsy>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A set of vagrants, who, to the great disgrace of our police, are suffered to wander about the countr...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The captain, chief, or ringleader of the gang of misrule: in the cant language called also the uprig...