FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

a (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

a (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

n A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

n (obsolete|UK|dialect) A coal broker.

n (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

n (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

n (usually|in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

n (obsolete) A game of cards.

v To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

v To style hair into a crimp.

v To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwich.

n An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.]

v To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.