·- The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
·- The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) wh...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An open passage into Charterhouse Yard and so unto Smithfield Bars and St. John Street, in Aldersgat...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Stones. The beggar's bullets began to fly, i.e. they began to throw stones. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
All those who have not the sham sores or clymes. ...
The fifth and last of the most ancient order of canters, beggars that rather demand than ask CANT. ...