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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Rum

Rŭm, n.

noun

n. [Fr. rum, rhum, Sp. rum, ron, It. rum. Said to be a West Indian or American word.]

  1. A kind of spirit distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the juice from the boiling-house, or from the treacle or molasses which drains from sugar, or from the lees of former distillations, or from molasses only.
  2. A country parson. [Low.] Swift.

Rŭm, a.

adjective

a. [Prov. Eng., old-fashioned rubbish, rum-mel, fragments of bricks and mortar; L. Ger. rum-mel, old things, lumber.] Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum customer. [Cant.] Dickens.