An empty bottle; an university joke, gentlemen commoners not being deemed over full of learning.
·noun A member of the House of Commons. II. Commoner ·noun A <<Prostitute>>. III. Commoner ·noun O...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun The servant of a man of rank. II. Gentleman ·noun One who bears arms, but has no title. III....
·noun A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. ...
An empty bottle: so called at the university of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not in general...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
In debt, in gaol, and in danger of remaining there for life: or, in gaol, indicted, and in danger of...
That is, without money, without wit, and without manners: some add another out, i.e. without credit....