peter

A kind of wine otherwise called peter-sec-me and peter-sameene.

A kind of cosmetic.

See blue-peter

In whist, a conventional signal indicating a call for trumps. See peter, verb

The common American coot, Fulica americana: so called with reference to its color, with an allusion to blue-peter.

In whist, to call for trumps by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a smaller.

To diminish gradually and then cease; fail; be-come exhausted; in mining, to split up into branches and become lost: said of a vein which runs out or disappears, so that it can no longer be followed by the miner: with out.

In thieves’ cant, a traveling-bag, portmanteau, trunk, or any piece of baggage or a parcel.

To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; — used generally with out.

A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles