queer bail

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• Bail

  ·noun Custody; keeping. II. Bail ·noun A certain limit within a forest. III. Bail ·noun A division...

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• bail

  I. n. «A framework for securing the head ofa cow while she is milked.» (`O.E.D.') This word, mark...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bail

  (Fr. baille.) The handle of a pail, bucket, or kettle.--Forby's Glossary. A common word throughout N...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bail

  A surety. The cargo of a captured or detained vessel is not allowed to be taken on bail before adjud...

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• Queer

  ·noun Counterfeit money. II. Queer ·add. ·adj To <<Puzzle>>. III. Queer ·adj Mysterious; suspiciou...

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• queer

  or quire Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fel...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Bail bond

  ·- Special bail in court to abide the judgment. II. Bail bond ·- A bond or obligation given by a pr...

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• buck bail

  Bail given by a sharper for one of the gang. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jew bail

  Insufficient bail: commonly Jews, who for a sum of money will bail any action whatsoever, and justif...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bail up

  v. 1) To secure the head of a cow in abail for milking. 2) By transference, to stop travellers in ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• leg bail

  To give leg bail, is to run away.--Grose. Sae weel's he'd fley the student's a', Whan they were sk...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bail-bond

  The obligation entered into by sureties. Also when a person appears as proxy for the master of a ves...

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• leg-bail

  Dishonest desertion from duty. The phrase is not confined to its nautical bearing. ...

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• queer wedges

  Large buckles. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer birds

  Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bitch

  An odd, out-of-the-way fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bluffer

  The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper....

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer bung

  An empty purse. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer checkers

  Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of peo...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cove

  A rogue. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cuffin

  A justice of the peace; also a churl. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer degen

  An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted. ...

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• queer ken

  A prison. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer kicks

  A bad pair of breeches. ...

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• queer mort

  A diseased strumpet. CANT. ...

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• queer nab

  A felt hat, or other bad hat. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer plungers

  Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices,...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer prancer

  A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer rooster

  An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer street

  Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify that it is wr...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer fish

  An odd or eccentric person is often called a queer fish, an odd stick. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• queer bit-makers

  Coiners. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cole fencer

  A putter off, or utterer, of bad money. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer cole maker

  A maker of bad money. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer as dick's hatband

  Out of order, without knowing one's disease. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose