Cass, a person with two lives. Close, clothes. Cockerel, a young cock. Cocktail, a kind of drink; also, an ornament peculiar to soldiers. Convention, a place where people are imposed on; a juggler's show. Coons, a cant term for a now defunct party; derived, perhaps, from the fact of their being commonly up a tree. Cornwallis, a sort of muster in masquerade; supposed to have had its origin soon after the Revolution, and to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. It took the place of the old Guy Fawkes procession. Crooked stick, a perverse, froward person. Cunnle, a colonel. Cus, a curse; also, a pitiful fellow. Darsn't, used indiscriminately, either in singular or plural number, for dare not, dares not, and dared not. Deacon off, to give the cue to; derived from a custom, once universal, but now extinct, in our New England Eend, end. Ef, if. Jint, joint. Junk, a fragment of any solid sub- Shappoes, chapeaux, cocked-hats. Sheer, share. Shet, shut. Shut, shirt. Skeered, scared. Skeeter, mosquito. Skooting, running, or moving swiftly. Slarterin', slaughtering. Steddles, stout stakes driven into the salt marshes, on which the hay-ricks are set, and thus raised out of the reach of high tides. Streaked, uncomfortable, discomfited. Sutthin', something. Take on, to sorrow. Talents, talons. Tetch, touch. Tetch tu, to be able; used always after a negative in this sense. Tollable, tolerable. Toot, used derisively for playing on any wind instrument. Thru, through. Thundering, a euphemism common in New England for the profane English expression devilish. Perhaps derived from the belief, common formerly, that thunder was caused by the Prince of the Air, for some of whose accomplishments consult Cotton Mather. Tu, to, too; commonly has this sound when used emphatically, or at the end of a sentence. At other times it has the sound of t in tough, as, Ware ye goin' tu? Goin' ta Boston. Ugly, ill-tempered, intractable. Uncle Sam, United States; the largest boaster of liberty and owner of slaves. Unrizzest, applied to dough or bread; heavy, most unrisen, or most incapable of rising. V-spot, a five-dollar bill. Vally, value. Wake snakes, to get into trouble. Wannut, walnut (hickory). Whopper, an uncommonly large lie; as, that General Taylor is in favor of the Wilmot Proviso. Wig, Whig; a party now dissolved. Wuth, worth; as, Antislavery perfes- Yaller, yellow. Yeller, yellow. Yellers, a disease of peach-trees. Zack, Ole, a second Washington, an anti-slavery slaveholder; a humane buyer and seller of men and women, a Christian hero generally. A. wants his axe ground, 295. INDEX A. B., information wanted concern- Abraham (Lincoln), his constitutional Abuse, an, its usefulness, 326. Adam, eldest son of, respected, 50- Adam, Grandfather, forged will of, Eneas goes to hell, 129. Eolus, a seller of money, as is sup- Eschylus, a saying of, 86, note. Applause, popular, the summum bo- Ararat, ignorance of foreign tongues Arcadian background, 133. Ar c'houskezik, an evil spirit, 272. British, their natural sympathies, 288. Arms, profession of, once esteemed Alligator, a decent one conjectured to Astor, Jacob, a rich man, 120. be, in some sort, humane, 146. Allsmash, the eternal, 306. Alphonso the Sixth of Portugal, tyran- Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but ration- American Eagle, a source of inspira- Anakim, that they formerly existed, Angels providentially speak French, - Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, what, 59. Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom carried Anthony of Padua, Saint, happy in his Antiquaries, Royal Society of North- Antonius, a speech of, 75- by whom Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic to the- Apollo, confessed mortal by his own Apollyon, his tragedies popular, 104. Astræa, nineteenth century forsaken Athenians, ancient, an institution of, Atherton, Senator, envies the loon, "Atlantic," editors of. See Neptune. Austin, Saint, prayer of, 217. B., a Congressman, vide A. Balcom, Elder Joash Q., 2d, founds a Baldwin apples, 150. Baratarias, real or imaginary, which Barnum, a great natural curiosity rec- Barrels, an inference from seeing, 150. |