verb. (American thieves’).—To warn; to give notice; to hint at; to disclose.

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  1340–50.  Alesaunder of Macédoine [E.E.T.S.], i. 615.

        A brem brasen borde bringes hee soone,
Imped in iuory, too INCLE þe truthe,
With good siluer & golde gailich atired.

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