subs. (colloquial).—1.  Anything, lightly gained or easily won.

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  2.  (common).—a white speck on the finger nails, supposed to portend a gift.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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  3.  (printers’).—See GIFT-HOUSE.

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  AS FULL OF GIFTS AS A BRAZEN HORSE OF FARTS, phr. (old).—Mean; miserly; disinclined to PART (q.v.).

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.

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