ppl. adj. (old).—Burnt on the hand; otherwise LETTERED (q.v.). [From the legitimate meaning of the word, = ‘marked or inscribed with characters.’]
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum. They have palmed the CHARACTER upon him; they have burned him in the hand.
