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KEENER |
Sharper |
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SHEERER |
Sharper (incline) |
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GUE |
A sharper; a rogue. |
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BUNG |
A sharper or pickpocket. |
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FOIST |
A foister; a sharper. |
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BITE |
A sharper; one who cheats. |
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BITER |
One who cheats; a sharper. |
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PICKPENNY |
A miser; also, a sharper. |
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SHARK |
A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. |
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COGGER |
A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper. |
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CONY-CATCHER |
A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. |
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ROOK |
A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. |
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SHAVER |
One who is close in bargains; a sharper. |
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SHARP |
To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. |
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PICAROON |
One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a
pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. |
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SHARPEN |
To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as,
to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. |
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QUICKEN |
To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve)
sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more
pronounced. |
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SUPER- |
...ch retain
the old meanings of super-, but with sharper definition. Cf. Acid, a.,
Bi-, Di-, and Per-. ... |