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Beef
·noun Applied colloquially to human flesh.
II. Beef ·adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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beef
To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. Cant.--To be in a man's beef; to wound h...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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beef
A figurative term for strength.
♦ More beef! more men on.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Market
·noun The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
II. Market ·noun Exchange, or purc...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Beef-witted
·noun Stupid; dull.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bully beef
·add. ·v Pickled or canned beef.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Mess beef
·add. ·- Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest pl...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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beef eater
A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupb...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hung beef
A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fello...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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beef-wood
n.
the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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albany beef
Sturgeon; a fish which abounds in the Hudson river; so called by the people in the State of New York...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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martlemas-beef
beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpo...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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albany beef
A name for the sturgeon of the Hudson River, where it is taken in quantity for commerce.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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beef-kid
A mess utensil for carrying meat from the coppers.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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jerked beef
Charqui. Meat cured by drying in the open air, with or without salt. Also, the name of an American c...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Market-place
Any place of public resort, and hence a public place or broad street (Matt. 11:16; 20:3), as well as...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Sheep-market
Occurs only in John 5:2 (marg., also R.V., "sheep-gate"). The word so rendered is an adjective, and ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Billingsgate Market
See Billingsgate.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Clothes' Market
On the east side of Houndsditch, north of the Clothes' Exchange. It seems to be entered through Phil...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Farringdon Market
Between Farringdon Street east and Shoe Lane west, north of Stonecutter Street, in Farringdon Ward W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fish Market
See Old Fish Market and Leadenhall.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fleet Market
Erected over the course of the Fleet or New Canal, after it had been enclosed and arched over, above...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flesh Market
See Leadenhall.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Gracechurch Market
There are frequent references in the Liber Albus and the City Letter Books to the sale of corn at "G...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Green Market
See Leadenhall.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Hutchison's Market
On the east side of Hutchison Street, between that street and Middlesex Street (O.S. ed. 1875-O.S. e...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Leadenhall Market
On the south side of Leadenhall Street between Gracechurch Street and Lime Street, at No. 88 Gracech...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Market Buildings
In Mincing Lane at No. 29 (P.O. Directory).
First named, 1872 (L.C.C. List, 1901).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Market Passage
1) In Paternoster Row, Cheapside, leading into Newgate Market (Strype, ed. 1755-Poyle, 1799).
Not n...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Meal Market
On the south side of Upper Thames Street at Queenhithe (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
Newgate...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Newgate Market
Between Rose Street, Newgate Street, and Paved Alley, Paternoster Row, in Castle Baynard Ward and Fa...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Smithfield Market
On the south side of Charterhouse Street, north of West Smith field, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Stocks Market
The City market so called occupied a large tract of ground at the junction of Coruhill, Threadneedle...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Winchester Market
Shop of Henry le Wimpler in Winchester market and his chest in seld of Robert de Arraz, 1281 (Ct. H....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Woolchurch Market
See Stocks Market.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cloth market
He is just come from the cloth market, i.e. from between the sheets, he is just risen from bed.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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roast-beef dress
Full uniform; probably from its resemblance to that of the royal beef-eaters.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Herb Market, Leadenhall
The southernmost portion of Leadenhall Market. In Bishopsgate Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 17...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Hide, Hides Market
See Leadenhall Market.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Honey Lane Market
On the east side of Milk Street, at the north end of Honey Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate War...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Fish Market
In the parishes of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Nicholas Cold abbey, and St. Nicholas Olave in Old Fish S...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Appius, Market Of
Revised Version for Appii Forum. (Acts 28:16)
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Market Of Appius
(Acts 28:15) In the Revised Version for Appii Forum of the Authorized Version, which see.
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Crown Inn, Newgate Market
See Crown Court6, Warwick Lane.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fowle Lane, Newgate Market
See King Edward Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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George Alley, Fleet Market
West from Fleet Market to Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Leake, 1666-Lockie, 1816).
In 1708...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Goose Alley, Fleet Market
See Braziers' Buildings.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Metropolitan Market, West Smithfield
See London Central Markets.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Rose Alley, Newgate Market
See Rose Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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roast beef of old england
A popular air, by which officers are summoned to the dinner-table.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Black Bear Alley, Fleet Market
See Back Bear Alley
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Little Conduit by the Stocks Market
Erected about 1500 (S. 18). In Walbrook Ward. Removed after the Fire 1666 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. i. 2...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose