n (Low.) A speculation, project, scheme; an expedient; a shift; any petty and perplexing job or business entered into for subsistence. Applied, also, to an embarrassment or a difficulty; a let, bar, hinderance, or a scrape, hobble, pickle; or to an encumbrance, clog, pest, bore, nuisance (as of a family or an establishment); to a trouble- some matter or person gen. 2 A lying imputation or charge. 3 Confusion, intricacy, deranged and perplexed state (of an affair or a business). v
n (Low.) A speculation, project, scheme; an expedient; a shift; any petty and perplexing job or business entered into for subsistence. Applied, also, to an embarrassment or a difficulty; a let, bar, hinderance, or a scrape, hobble, pickle; or to an encumbrance, clog, pest, bore, nuisance (as of a family or an establishment); to a trouble- some matter or person gen. 2 A lying imputation or charge. 3 Confusion, intricacy, deranged and perplexed state (of an affair or a business). v