They dressed officers with new, military-style uniforms, gave them antistab vests and equipped them with equipment like extendable metal batons and clubs that turn into handcuffs.

As grate a rascal, as ever trod shoe-leather.

Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.

the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine