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Dried cow manure.
http://pregnancy.about.com/library/weekly/aa090901a.htm explains more about the expression "the rabbit died" which was used as a euphemism for "I'm pregnant." The rabbit *always* died, actually, regardless of whether or not the woman was pregnant. While I certainly remember hearing this expression used when I was a kid back in the '70s, it came into usage many decades before that.
A way of stating someone is pregnant. Refers to the old test of injecting a rabbit. If the rabbit survived, the person wasn't pregnant, if it died, they were.
Noun. A form of address. E.g."Hello old bean, how are you today?"
To flirt. Usually only used when a male is doing the flirting. "She was a nice girl, I tuned her a bit."
Tube is slang for television. Tube is slang for a coward.Tube is British slang for a person. Tube is Scottish slang for a fool.Tube is Australian slang for a bottle or can of beer.
Loony tune is slang for a mad or eccentric person.
Tuna is American slang for a girl, woman. Tuna is American slang for sexual activity.Tuna is American slang for the female sex organs. Tuna is American slang for marijuana.
a way of saying someone is NOT pregnant. It refers to the old test of injecting a rabbit with a woman's urine. If the rabbit didn't live, the woman wasn't pregnant; if it did, she was.
 An epithet for any ill-played or discordant piece of music.
Cow is British slang for an unpleasant lady. Cow is American slang for a hamburger. Cow is Australian slang for a difficult task.Cow is Australian and New Zealand slang for something objectionable.
The old boy is slang for the Devil.
Baste the tuna is slang for to masturbate (said of a woman).
Con and Col is London Cockney rhyming slang for unemployment benefit (dole).
Pantomime cow is London Cockney rhyming slang for a row.
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n.
A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
superl.
Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
imp. & p. p.
of Die
a.
Old.
n.
General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
superl.
Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
superl.
Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
pl.
of Die
n.
One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.
adv.
With a low musical pitch or tone.
n.
A sound; a note; a tone.
superl.
Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
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v. t.
To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
superl.
Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
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superl.
Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.
superl.
Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
v. t.
To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
superl.
Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
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