(The), subs. phr. (military).—The Sixty-third Regiment of Foot, now the first battalion of the Manchester Regiment.

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  2.  (old).—A leech; hence a murderous or bloodthirsty person: also see quot. 1529.

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  1529[?].  FISH, A Supplication for the Beggars, 6. A cruell deuelisshe BLOUDSUPPER dronken in the bloude of the sayntes and marters of Christ.

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  3.  (colloquial).—An extortioner; SPONGER (q.v.); CADGER (q.v.: in modern sense).

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  4.  (nautical).—A lazy fellow, who by skulking, throws his proportion of labour on the shoulders of ship-mates (SMYTH); a SCRIM-SHANKER (q.v.).

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