noun.
A kind of wine otherwise called peter-sec-me and peter-sameene.
noun.
A kind of cosmetic.
noun.
See blue-peter
noun.
In whist, a conventional signal indicating a call for trumps. See peter, verb
noun.
The common American coot, Fulica americana: so called with reference to its color, with an allusion to blue-peter.
In whist, to call for trumps by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a smaller.
To diminish gradually and then cease; fail; be-come exhausted; in mining, to split up into branches and become lost: said of a vein which runs out or disappears, so that it can no longer be followed by the miner: with out.
noun.
In thieves' cant, a traveling-bag, portmanteau, trunk, or any piece of baggage or a parcel.