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...Webster's New International Dictionary defines jew: "... To overreach by sharp practice, cheating or trickery; to practice imposition or extortion upon;- used opprobriously in allusion to practices imputed to the Jews by those who dislike them, or now sometimes colloquially without conscious reference to the Jews...
...Adams, Adlis, Alschuler, Amazeen, J. B. Ayer, R. M. Ayer, Bartol, Beveridge, Burrage, Cabot, Coburn, Cole, Currier, Dunn, Dwinell, Elwell, Fallon, Feins, Fincke, Foshay, Frothingham, Gilmor, Ginman, Gleason, Greene, Heath, Hoguet, Johnson, Lane, Langley, Leatherbee, Lewis, Lupien, Martin, Pell, Scott, Taylor, G. Q. Thorndike, J. B. Thorndike, Warner, Watt, Webster, Weeks, Wenner, Winston, Wolcott, Worthen...
Apropos of the footnote re "Badgered Doctors " p. 51, TIME for Aug. 25, animadverting the fair name of Wisconsin and the progenitors of her citizens be informed that your definition is unusually mendacious. TIME quotes Webster substantiating its statement. To refute Webster I also quote Webster's New International Dictionary (India Paper Edition...
James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...
...Maverick?an unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf, formerly customarily claimed by the first one branding it." (Webster...