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The name or distinctive device for an article made for sale, indicating that it was produced by the holder of this device. In most countries trade marks are pro- tected by law, it being a misdemeanour to forge or counterfeit such a mark. In Britain and U.S.A. a trade mark must be registered with the Government in order to secure full protection.
An association of employees in a trade or industry, formed for the promo- tion and protection of their common interests in regard to conditions of labour, wages, etc., and often for providing its members with payments during temporary unemployment, sickness, or strikes, and pensions in old age.
Winds that blow trade, i.e. regularly in one track or direction (Low Ger. trade, track).
A compliment offered in exchange for another. "I have a trade-last for you," means, "I have heard something flattering about you which I will tell you after you have told me a flattering remark you have heard about me." The phrase is common among juveniles and adolescents.
One who thoroughly understands his business, whatever it may be. No better compliment can be passed on an individual, whether his profession be housebreaking, prizefighting, or that of a handicraftsman, than the significant "He’s a regular TRADESMAN."
The anus.
Thieves. Clever tradesmen; good thieves.
Broken mechanics, discharged footmen, and other low fellows, smuggled into the commission of the peace, who subsist by fomenting disputes, granting warrants, and otherwise retailing justice; to the honour of the present times, these nuisances are by no means, so common as formerly.
People of low social class or morals
People of low social class or morals
A situation that is completely out of control and has a disastrous outcome
At Rome; made of marble A.D. 114, by Apollodorus. It is a Roman Doric column of marble, 1211 ft. in height, on a square pedestal, and has inside a spiral staircase of 185 steps lighted by 40 windows. It was surmounted by a statue of the Emperor Trajan, but Sixtus V supplanted the original statue by that of St. Peter. The spiral outside represents in bas-relief the battles of the emperor.
It is a Roman Done column of marble, 127£ ft. high, covered with reliefs representing over 2,000 persons, be- sides many animals. It formed the model for the column in the Place Venddme, Paris, and is now surmounted by a statue of St. Peter.
A line of fortifications stretching across the Dobrudja from Czcrna- voda to the Black Sea.
To suddenly and quickly change and take action
A man who deals in old shoes or clothes, and refits them for cheap wear. These people generally live in or about Dudley Street, Seven Dials.
Sellers of old mended shoes and boots, between coblers and shoemakers.
Second-hand boots mended and polished, and sold at a low price.
A system of punishment by which criminals are removed to some penal settlement outside their own country for a period of years or for life.
To understand trap; to know one's own interest.
A "fast" term for a carriage of any kind. TRAPS, goods and chattels of any kind, but especially luggage and personal effects; in Australia, "swag."
Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball.
A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.
Gadding or gossiping about in a slatternly way. Generally applied to girls and women in low neighbourhoods, who wander from public-house to public-house, and whose clothes are carelessly fastened, causing them to trail on the ground.
Constables and thief-takers. CANT.
drunk.
To tip the traveller; to tell wonderful stories, to romance.
Name given by one tramp to another. "A TRAVELLER at her Majesty’s expense," i.e., a transported felon, a convict.
Tall yarns; exaggerated stories of wonderful adventures and sights. Telling such tales used to be called tipping one the traveller.
A mode of amusing themselves, practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass by on the side next them, according to the following estimation:
An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on a pavement marked out with chalk into different compartments.
Sweetheart.
proceed with caution to avoid problems
To trample
to proceed with caution and avoid offending or upsetting others
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
to annoy or offend someone
To work as an actor, especially in theater
A bicycle.
The term applied to coins and other valuables of gold or silver found in the ground or some other hiding-place, whose owner is unknown. In the legal sense these objects must have been originally placed there with the purpose of concealment; gold orna- ments, etc., found in tombs or tumuli where they were deliberately placed with no intention of concealment are not treasure trove.
"up a TREE," in temporary difficulties,—out of the way. American expression, derived from racoon or bear-hunting. When Bruin is TREED, or is forced up a TREE by the dogs, it means that then the tug of war begins. See ’COON. Hence when an opponent is fairly run to bay, and can by no evasion get off, he is said to be TREED. These expressions originated with Colonel Crockett, of backwoods celebrity.
An environmental campaigner, especially one who aims to restrict logging and especially one who uses dramatic, attention-grabbing methods of obstruction.
to obey someone or something with fear or reluctance
A tin hat.
A remittent or relapsing fever affecting men living in trenches, dug-outs, etc., and transmitted by the excrement of lice. It first appeared in World War I, in the static warfare on the western front.
a severe form of gum disease
The square cap worn by the collegians. at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Persons who cultivate the friendship of others for the sake of sitting at their board, and the good things they can get.
A table knight, a suitor from cupboard love.
A stout trencher man; one who has a good appetite, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and fork.
a method of learning by trying different approaches
A test of public opinion or reaction to an idea
The submission of a legal suit to a combat between the litigants, under the notion that God would defend the right.
A difficult test or challenge that proves one's abilities
Judgment by public opinion through media coverage
Difficulties and challenges
A slang term for delirium tremens, during a fit of which everything appears out of the square.
A prison: perhaps from tribulation.
A skill or technique learned through experience in a particular job or activity
A demand for candy or other treats, typically by children on Halloween.