Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Wild-cat

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Wild-cat


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(1):

(a.) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.

(2):

(a.) Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.