- ABRAHAM-MEN
- a class of lunatics allowed out of restraint, at one time, to roam about and beg; a set of impostors who wandered about the country affecting lunacy.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
ABRAHAM-MEN
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