What is any cover or screen, as red-tapism. [R.] Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts.] Carlyle called?
wiggery — Any cover or screen, as red-tapism. [R.] Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts.] Carlyle. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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