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A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.

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  1. n. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
  2. n. The thing thus caught and eaten.
  3. v. t. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.