n. A kind of wine otherwise called peter-sec-me and peter-sameene.n. A kind of cosmetic.n. See blue-petern. In whist, a conventional signal indicating a call for trumps. See peter, verbn. The common American coot, Fulica americana: so called with reference to its color, with an allusion to blue-peter.In whist, to call for trumps by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a smaller.To diminish gradually and then cease; fail; be-come exhausted; in mining, to split up into branches and become lost: said of a vein which runs out or disappears, so that it can no longer be followed by the miner: with out.n. In thieves' cant, a traveling-bag, portmanteau, trunk, or any piece of baggage or a parcel.