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Badger
·noun A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. II. Badger ·vt To tease or annoy, as a badger...

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Badger
This word is found in Ex. 25:5; 26:14; 35:7, 23; 36:19; 39:34; Num. 4:6, etc. The tabernacle was cov...

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badger
n. This English name has beenincorrectly applied in Australia, sometimes to the Bandicoot,sometimes...

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badger
a huckster. N. In Derbyshire, a meal-man. ...

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Game
·noun Crooked; lame; as, a game leg. II. Game ·noun To play at any sport or diversion. III. Game ·...

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game
1) Any mode of robbing. The toby is now a queer game; to rob on the highway is now a bad mode of act...

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Badger State
·add. ·- Wisconsin; — a nickname. ...

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Badger-legged
·adj Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. ...

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badger-box
n. slang name for a roughly-constructed dwelling. 1875. `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasma...

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badger, to
To tease or confound by frivolous orders. ...

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badger-bag
The fictitious Neptune who visits the ship on her crossing the line. ...

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Badger Skins
There is much obscurity as to the meaning of the word tachash, rendered "badger" in the Authorized V...

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Consolation game
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Consolation race. ...

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Game fowl
·- A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males....

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Make-game
·noun An object of ridicule; a butt. ...

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Match game
·add. ·- A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games. ...

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Vantage game
·add. ·- The first game after the set is deuce. ·see <<Set>>, ·noun, 9. ...

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die game
To die hard, is to shew no signs of fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak. Thi...

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game leg
A lame leg. A term not peculiar to America. ...

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game-leg
a lame leg. N. ...

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game-leg
A lame limb, but not so bad as to unfit for duty. ...

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