A piece of gold coin, value five shillings and three pence, frequently given to women of the town by such as professed always to give gold, and who before the introduction of those pieces always gave half a guinea.
·vt An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction. II. Curse ·vt The cause of great ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Denounced by God against the serpent (Gen. 3:14), and against Cain (4:11). These divine maledictions...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A debauched fellow, the largest of all birds. He sings more like a whore's bird than a canary bird; ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A bastard. ...
The venereal disease. ...
The nine of diamonds; diamonds, it is said, imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial crown; an...
A cockade. ...