Temper, irritability.
1836. Says I, Deb, we are going to shear our old black ram next fust day week, and I’ll send you wool enough to make a wig. That ris Deb’s ebenezer.—Phila. Public Ledger, July 27.
1837. That riz my ebenezer, and I banged the first of ’em all to smash.—R. M. Bird, ‘Nick of the Woods,’ i. 183 (Lond.).
a. 1848. The ebenezer of some men rises to an awful pitch, at the mere prick of a pin.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 252.
1848. Waell, I recking the capting’s ebeneser was roused.—W. E Burton, ‘Waggeries,’ p. 16 (Phila.).
