Usurers who attend the gaming-tables, and lend money at great premiums.
·noun The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, ·etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests. II. Im...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The tax received for such foreign merchandises as are brought into any haven within a prince's domin...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Fellows who associate with all kinds of villains, in order to betray them, when they have committed ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose