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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scumming of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink composed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, with some flavoring extract.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.] Swift.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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