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APPENDIX.

A.

AMBIA. Used in Virginia and the, Carolinas for tobacco juice. It is a euphemism for the spittle produced by this voluntary ptyalism. AVAILABILITY. Quality of being available.-Worcester. That qualification in a candidate which implies or supposes a strong probability of his success, apart from substantial merit-a probability resulting from mere personal or accidental popularity. The thing has long existed in the Papal Government, where the advanced age of a candidate for the triple crown has often been the motive of his election; the idea being that he would soon die out of the way and leave the chair vacant for a new trial of strength under more favorable auspices, perhaps, for some of the electing cardinals.

Inoffensiveness-exemption from strong hostility in any quarter-is a frequent element of availability. [J. Inman.]

As this word is not noticed by any lexicographer except Dr. Worcester, and is now much used, it is thought advisable to give several examples of its use.

For some months past, a regular system of crying down Mr. Clay as unavailable, has been prosecuted with indefatigable energy and adroitness throughout the Union. . . . . . Mr. Clay is a great man-able statesman -all of us prefer him to anybody else if he could be elected, but I'm afraid he isn't available.-Letter in N. Y. Tribune, May, 1848.

The only possible motive for the choice of Mr. Cass that we can imagine, is his presumed "availability,” the elements of this being his known predilection, real or assumed, for territorial acquisition in all quarters, by

warlike means as well as others, and his avowed devotion to the Southern or slave-holding interest.-N. Y. Com. Adv., May 26, 1848.

These political Conventions are certainly becoming more odious and objectionable from year to year, and availability, not merit or qualifications, is the only requisite to secure a nomination.-Baltimore Cor. of the N. Y. Herald, May, 1848.

At a Democratic meeting held in New York to ratify the nomination of Gen. Cass, Mr. McAllister, of Georgia, said that

Henry Clay, about whom the Whig party had professed such ardent attachment, had been carried upon the altar of availability, and there sacrificed by the hands of his pretended friends, and inquired what kind of a spectacle it presented to the young men of our country with ardent spirits -young men who have attached themselves for a time to the car of Whigism.-N. Y. Herald, June, 1848.

At the same meeting the Hon. James Bowlin, of Missouri, thus expressed himself, in relation to General Taylor:

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The Whigs within the last few days have presented candidates for the highest office in the gift of the people, who are without any principles. . . . What do they mean by this in thus presenting candidates who have no principles? They proceed on the principle of mere availability, and nothing else. They are again going to insult your judgments, and tarnish the character of the nation by their exhibitions of coon-skins and hard cider, and their midnight debaucheries, as they did in 1840.-Report in N. Y. Herald, June 12, 1848.

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BAY STATE. The State of Massachusetts. name of the Colony was Massachusetts Bay. the New England people it was usually called the Bay State. BEAR STATE. A name by which the State of Arkansas is known at the West. I once asked a Western man if Arkansas abounded in bears, that it should be designated as the Bear State?" "Yes," said he, "it does; for I never knew a man from that State but he was a bar, and in fact the people are all barish to a degree."

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BELIKED. Liked; beloved. A Western term.

I do believe me and Nancy was beliked by the Indians, and many's the venison and turkey they fotch'd us as a sort of present, and may be a kind

of pay for bread-stuffs and salt Nancy used to give them.-Carlton, The New Purchase.

BOLIVAR HAT. A Leghorn bonnet, with a broad brim, worn a few years since.

BUCK. A frame or stand of peculiar construction on which wood is sawn for fuel. In New England it is called a sawhorse.

BULLION STATE. The State of Missouri; so called in consequence of the exertions made by its Senator, Mr. Benton, in favor of a gold and silver currency, in opposition to banks and a paper currency. The honorable Senator was often nicknamed old Bullion, and the State he represented, the Bullion State.

At the Democratic meeting in New York, June 12, 1848, to ratify the nomination of Gen. Cass, the Hon. James Bowlin, of Missouri, in denouncing the Whig party, said:

I deny that the election of 1840 was carried by the people. It was carried by duplicity. It was carried by the unfortunate state of the times, which was not the result of Democratic rule, and by false charges against the American Democracy; and, thank God, in my own State, in the Bullion State, they did not succeed in depreciating our majority.—N. Y. Herald, June 13, 1848.

BUNGO.

A kind of boat used at the South.

The most urgent steps were being taken to press every bungo and canoe to the immediate relief of the people along the coast, in order to embark them without delay.-N. O. Picayune.

BURGALL. (Ctenolabrus ceruleus.) A small fish very common in New York; also found on the coast of New England, and as far South as Delaware Bay. The usual length is about six inches, though they are sometimes found twelve inches. Other names for the same fish are Nibbler, from its nibbling off the bait when thrown for other fishes, Chogset, the Indian name, and in New England, those of Blue Perch and Conner.

C.

CABOODLE. The whole caboodle is a common expression, meaning the whole. I know not the origin of the word. It

is used in all the Northern States and New England. The word boodle is used in the same manner.

They may recommend, to the electors of Hamilton county, to disregard so much of the law as constitutes two election districts of Hamilton county. Having done this, Medary will be looking out for a job-Olds will be often in Fairfield, cozening for a nomination to Congress—and the whole caboodle will act upon the recommendation of the Ohio Sun, and endeavor to secure a triumph in the old-fashion way.-Ohio State Journal.

CARLACUE. A caper; a boyish trick. To cut up carlacues,' is a common expression, equivalent to 'cutting up didoes.' Used in New York.

CASTOR. (Latin.) A beaver; hence, a hat.

"I trembled, I own, where the bravest would shrink,
Each moment expecting some horrid disaster;

Then my head

gave a spin, and I lost-what d'ye think?" Said St. Peter, "Most likely your castor."-New York Sunday Courier.

CATCH. A term used among fishermen to denote a quantity of fish taken at one time.

It is said that the catch of blue fish in the inlet and river is greater than ever known so early in the season, and that they are served up secundem artem at Mr. Williston's.-N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, June 24.

CHAISE. A light two-wheeled pleasure carriage drawn by one horse. In New England it is called a chaise, in New York, a gig.

CHOGSET. The Indian name of a small fish known in New York as the Burgall, which see.

CHUNK or CHUNKEE YARD. A name given by the white traders to the oblong four-square yards adjoining the high mounts and rotundas of the modern Indians of Florida. In the centre of these stands the obelisk, and at each corner of the farther end stands a slave post, or strong stake, where the captives that are burnt alive are bound.-Bartram.

The pyramidal hills or artificial mounts, and highways or avenues, leading from them to artificial lakes or ponds, vast tetragon terraces, chunkyards, and obelisks or pillars of wood, are the only monuments of labor, ingenuity, and magnificence, that I have seen worthy of notice.-Bartram, Travels in Florida (1773), p. 518.

This is doubtless an Indian term, and the enclosure a place

where the natives played a game called chunkee, as will appear by the following extract from Du Pratz:

"The warriors practise a diversion which they call the game of the pole, at which only two play at a time. Each pole is about eight feet long, resembling a Roman f, and the game consists in rolling a flat round stone, about three inches in diameter and one inch thick, and throwing the pole in such a manner, that when the stone rests the pole may be at or near it. Both the antagonists throw their poles at the same time, and he whose pole is nearest the stone counts one, and has the right of rolling the stone.”—Hist. of Louisiana, 1720. Adair speaks of the same game, which is by the Indians called chungke.-History American Indians, p. 402. Catlin notices the same among the Mandans and Creeks, called by them Tchungkee.—Catlin's Indians, Vol. I. p. 132. TO CIRCULATE. To travel. Used in this sense many times in a pamphlet on the "Frauds, Extortions, and Oppressions of the Railroad Monopoly in New Jersey." In comparing the rates of travel in various States, by which it is shown that the rates in New Jersey are the highest in the world, the author says:

Arriving in Maryland, a slave State, he circulates at a cost of from three to five cents per mile.

COME-OUTERS. This name has been applied to a considerable number of persons in various parts of the Northern States, principally in New England, who have recently come out of the various religious denominations with which they have been connected; hence the name. They have not themselves assumed any distinctive organization. They have no creed, believing that every one should be left free to hold such opinions on religious subjects as he pleases, without being held accountable for the same to any human authority.

They hold a diversity of opinions on many points-some believing in the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, and others that they are but human compositions. They believe Jesus Christ to have been a divinely inspired teacher, and his religion, a revelation of eternal truth; that according to his teachings, true religion consists in purity of heart, holiness

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