n.
A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. →
n.
A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. →
a.
Having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous. →