1. (n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

2. (n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.

3. (n.) A sort of droll or fool.

4. (n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

5. (n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.

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