A gentleman of sufficient name to form a bait who allows himself to be put on a directors list for the guinea and lunch provided for the board. (See Floaters.)
Door, Skipworth Church
The Seranade
237.—Saxon Emblems of the Month of April.
The fort and castle at Osaka
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.