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Ball
·noun The globe or earth.
II. Ball ·noun A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
III. Ball ·...
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Le Ball
A tenement so called in parish of St. Martin Pomers, 1 H. VII. (Anc. Deeds, C. 596).
Not further id...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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ball
In a general sense, implies a spherical and round body, whether naturally so or formed into that fig...
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Blue
·noun A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
II. Blue ·pl Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy....
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Blue
Generally associated with purple (Ex. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtaine...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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blue
To look blue; to be confounded, terrified, or disappointed. Blue as a razor; perhaps, blue as azure....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue
1) Gloomy, severe; extreme, ultra.
In the former sense it is applied especially to the Presbyterian...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue
♦ Till all's blue: carried to the utmost a phrase borrowed from the idea of a vessel making out of p...
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Ball Court, Cornhill
South out of Cornhill, at No.38, east of Birchin Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill Ward.
First men...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fire Ball court
East out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (25 Eliz. 1583) (Lond. Inq. p.m. III. p. 64) to O.S. 25 i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fire Ball Court
Near First (Aldermanbury) Postern, London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the map...
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Blue Anchor Court
In Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Blue Boar Court
1) See Prince's Street, Rosemary Lane.
2) South out of Chick Lane and west to Hide's Rents, in Farr...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Hart Court
West out of Little Bell Alley to Little Swan Alley. In Coleman Street Ward (Strype, ed. 1720-O.S. 18...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Lion Court
East out of Aldersgate Street at No. 24, in Aldersgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
First mention...
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Ball and Shears Court
South-west out of Houndsditch (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755). In Portsoken Ward.
Site now occupied b...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ball Court, Giltspur Street
East out of Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Collmgwood, 1907).
First mention: O. and M...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ball Court, Jewry Street
West out of Jewry Street. In Aldgate Ward (L.C.C. List of Streets, 1912) at No. 15 (Lockie, 1810).
...
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Ball Court, Mincing Lane
Out of Mincing Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Ball Court, Old Bailey
East out of Old Bailey in Farringdon Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : " Bell ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ball Court, Petticoat Lane
Out of Petticoat Lane (Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ball Court, St. Katherine's
East out of St. Katherine's Lane, a few doors from No.50 Upper East Smithfield (Strype, ed. 1755-Loc...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Last and Ball Court
At London Wall, near Carpenters' Hall (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Name derived...
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Ball-flower
·noun An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup roun...
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Basket ball
·add. ·- A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to ...
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Minie ball
·- A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the exp...
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Puddle-ball
·noun The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
...
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Smoke ball
·add. ·- ·same·as <<Puffball>>.
...
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Spit ball
·add. ·- A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers ...
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Tether-ball
·add. ·noun A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the ob...
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Volley ball
·add. ·- A game played by volleying a large inflated ball with the hands over a net 7 ft. 6 in. high...
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Whitworth ball
·- A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.
...
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Ball Yard
In Beech Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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beilby's ball
He will dance at Beilby's ball, where the sheriff pays the music; he will be hanged. Who Mr. Beilby ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buttock ball
The amorous congress. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sheriff's ball
An execution. To dance at the sheriff's ball, and loll out one's tongue at the company; to be hanged...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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whow ball
A milk-maid: from their frequent use of the word whow, to make the cow stand still in milking. Ball ...
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pudding-ball
n.
a fish; corruption of theaboriginal name of it, puddinba (q.v.), by the lawof Hobson-Jobson.
18...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fuzz-ball
a species of fungus. N. Called in some parts of England a Puckfoist.
...
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anchor-ball
A pyrotechnical combustible attached to a grapnel for adhering to and setting fire to ships.
...
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ball-cartridge
For small arms.
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ball-clay
Adhesive strong bottom, brought up by the flukes of the anchors in massy lumps.
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ball-stell
The geometrical instrument named della stella.
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fire-ball
In meteorology, a beautiful phenomenon seen at times, the origin of which is as yet imperfectly acco...
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tide-ball
A ball hoisted to denote when the depth of water permits vessels to enter a bar-harbour, or to take ...
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Blue bonnet
·noun ·Alt. of Blue-bonnet.
...
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Blue book
·- The United States official "Biennial Register.".
II. Blue book ·- A parliamentary publication, s...
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Blue grass
·- A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire...
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Blue jay
·- The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is ...
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Blue-bonnet
·noun A plant. ·same·as <<Bluebottle>>.
II. Blue-bonnet ·noun The European blue titmouse (Parus coe...
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Blue-eye
·noun The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
...
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Blue-eyed
·adj Having blue eyes.
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Blue-john
·noun A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
...
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Blue-skylaw
·add. ·- A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in orde...
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Blue-veined
·adj Having blue veins or blue streaks.
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Navy blue
·add. ·- Prussian blue.
...
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Sanders-blue
·noun ·see Saunders-blue.
...
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Saunders-blue
·noun A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from c...
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Sevres blue
·- A very light blue.
...
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Sky-blue
·adj Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.
...
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Smalt-blue
·adj Deep blue, like smalt.
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True-blue
·noun A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
II. True-blue ·adj Of inflexible honesty and fi...
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Turnbull's blue
·- The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery l...
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Blue Anchor
Strype says that the part of Houndsditch in Bishopsgate Ward Without extends to the Blue Anchor (Str...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Bell
In Bread Street, in Bread Street Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
"Blew Bell," in Cheapsyde me...
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The Blue Boar
On the east side of Fish Street Hill, adjoining King's Head Court.
It was so called before the Fire...
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Blue Gates
1) West out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
The site is now occu...
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blue boar
A venereal bubo.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue devils
Low spirits.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue flag
He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue pigeons
Thieves who steal lead off houses and churches. Cant. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off houses...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue plumb
A bullet.--Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R--'s blue plumb...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue skin
A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue tape, or sky blue
Gin.
...
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blue ruin
Gin. Blue ribband; gin.
...
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blue-bush
n.
an Australian forage plant,a kind of Salt-bush, Kochia pyrainidata, Benth, N.O. Chenopodiaceae.
...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-cod
n.
name given to a New Zealand fish, Percis colias, family Trachinidae. Called alsoin New Zealand R...
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blue-creeper
n.
name given to the creeper, Comesperma volubile, Lab., N.O. Campanulaceae.
...
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blue-eye
n.
a bird name. The Blue facedHoney-eater (q.v.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-fish
n.
name given in Sydney to Girella cyanea, of the family Sparidae, orSea-Breams. It is different fr...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-groper
n.
a fish of New South Wales and Tasmania, Cossyphus gouldii, one of the Labridaeor Wrasses, often ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-gum
n.
See under gum. It is anincreasing practice to make a single word of this compound, andto pronoun...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-head
n.
Tasmanian name for the fishcalled the blue-groper (q.v.)
...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue lobelia
n.
The indigenous species inTasmania which receives this name is Lobelia gibbosa,Lab., N.O. Campanu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-pointer
n.
a name given in New South Wales to a species of Shark, Lamna glauca, Mull. and Heule, family Lam...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-wing
n.
a sportsman's name (as in England)for the bird called the Shoveller (q.v.).
...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-berry
(Vacinium tenellum.) A fruit resembling the whortleberry in appearance and taste.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-book
A printed book containing the names of all the persons holding office under the Government of the Un...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-nose
The slang name for a native of Nova Scotia.
"Pray, sir," said one of my fellow passengers, "can you...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-skins
A nickname applied to the Presbyterians, from their alleged grave deportment.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue devils
To have the blue devils is to be dispirited.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue laws
"Where, and how, the story of the New Haven Blue Laws originated, is a matter of some curiosity. Acc...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue stocking
1) The American avoset (recurvirostra Americana). A common bird in the Northern States.--Nat. Hist. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-jackets
The seamen as distinguished from the marines.
...
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blue light
A pyrotechnical preparation for signals by night. Also called Bengal light.
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blue-lightism
Affected sanctimoniousness.
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blue moon
An indefinite period.
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blue-nose
A general term for a native of Nova Scotia.
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blue peter
The signal for sailing when hoisted at the fore-topmast head; this well-known flag has a blue ground...
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blue pigeon
A nickname for the sounding lead.
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blue water
The open ocean.
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true-blue
A metaphorical term for an honest and hearty sailor: "true to his uniform, and uniformly true."
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Court
·noun The session of a judicial assembly.
II. Court ·noun Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecc...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Court
The enclosure of the tabernacle (Ex. 27:9-19; 40:8), of the temple (1 Kings 6:36), of a prison (Neh....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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court
In New England this word is applied to a legislative body composed of a House of Representatives and...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Court
(Heb. chatser), an open enclosure surrounded by buildings, applied in the Authorized Version most co...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Rose and Ball Court. Addle Hill
See Rose Court.
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Fire Ball Alley
See Partridge Court.
...
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ball-and-socket
A clever adaptation to give astronomical or surveying instruments full play and motion every way by ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ball-off, to
To twist rope-yarns into balls, with a running end in the heart for making spun-yarn.
...
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Blue Hen State
·add. ·- The State of Delaware;
— a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to...
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Blue-eyed grass
·- a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
...
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Blue-grass State
·add. ·- The Sate of Kentucky;
— a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses ar...
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Blue Anchor Alley
1) In Great Minories (Dodsley, 1761).
Not further identified.
2) In St. Katherine's precinct (Dods...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Anchor Inn
On the south-west side of Duck Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without, at the Corner of Little Britain (O....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Anchor Yard
West out of Coleman Street at No. 1 and north to London Wall. In Coleman Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-E...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Bore Inn
North out of Aldgate High Street at No.30 (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1848-51). In Portsoken Ward.
"Blue B...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Coat Buildings
See King Edward Street.
...
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blue-tongued lizard
n.
name given to Tiliqua nigroluteus, Gray, a common Australian andTasmanian lizard belonging to th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Cullum Court, Cullums Court
West out of Rood Lane. In Langbourn Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
The site is now occupied by...
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Ball, Sir Robert Stawell
LL.D., F.R.S.
(b. 1840)
Scientific writer. The Story of the Heavens (1885), Starland (1889), The S...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Ball Alley, Aldersgate Street
East out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without, near the Gate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ball Alley, Cannon Street
Out of Cannon Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Ball Alley, Lime Street
East out of Lime Street, near the middle (Hatton, 1708-Elmes, 1831).
The site is now occupied by Fe...
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Ball Alley, Lombard Street
North out of Lombard Street at No. 54 on the west side of All Hallows Church (P.O. Directory). In La...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ball Alley, London Wall
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
First mention: In Ward...
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Ball Alley, Sherbourne Lane
At. No. 5 Sherbourne Lane, opposite the Post Office Yard.
A dark passage leading into St. Swithin's...
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Ball Alley, St. Katherine's
Out of St. Katherine's Lane, East Smithfield (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Ball Alley, Thames Street
South out of Thames Street to the Thames, east of Black-boy Alley in Castle Baynard Ward (Leake, 166...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Ball Yard, Giltspur Street
See Ball Court, Giltspur Street.
...
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Leg and Ball Alley
South out of London Wall, in parish of All Hallows, London Wall, in Broad Street Ward.
Broad Street...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Base-court
·noun An inferior court of law, not of record.
II. Base-court ·noun The secondary, inferior, or rea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Court tennis
·- ·see under <<Tennis>>.
...
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Court-baron
·noun An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron...
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Court-craft
·noun The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
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Court-cupboard
·noun A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on s...
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Court-leet
·noun A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the st...
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Court-martial
·vt To subject to trial by a court-martial.
II. Court-martial ·noun A court consisting of military ...
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Court-martialed
·Impf & ·p.p. of Court-martial.
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Court-martialing
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Court-martial.
...
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Court-plaster
·noun Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, com...
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Adam's Court
1) East out of Foster Lane, in Aldersgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 120). No further reference...
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(St.) Alban's Court
West out of Wood Street at No.91 with a passage south to Oat Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate W...
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Allen's Court
1) North out of Leadenhall Street, east of St. Andrew Undershaft Church (Strype, ed. 1720-Boyle, 179...
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Amen Court
West and north from Amen Corner and west out of Warwick Lane at No.12. In Farringdon Ward Within (P....
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Angel Court
1) East out of Milton Street in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746 to O.S. 1880).
At No.68 in L...
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Annabaptist Court
See Baptist's Head Court, Whitecross Street.
...
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Apollo Court
North out of Fleet Street, west of Chancery Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without, part of Bell Yard (Roc...
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Arnold's Court
South out of Barbican, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Strype, 172O-Boyle, 1799).
Site now occupied by ...
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Artichoak Court
West out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831).
See Articho...
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Artichoke Court
South out of Cannon Street at No. 32, east of Green Lettuce Lane. In Candlewick Ward (O. and M. 1677...
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Ashantree Court
See Ashentree Court [Ashentbee?] Court, Temple Street.
...
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Ashentbee [Ashentree?] Court
North out of Temple Street, Whitefriars, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Now c...
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Ashentree Court
North out of George Yard and Magpie Alley, within the precinct of Whitefriars (O.S. 1880).
See Ashe...
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Ashman's Court
West out of Temple Street to the Temple. In Farringdon Ward Without (Elmes, 1831).
Not further iden...
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Ashurst's Court
North out of Distaff Lane, west of Cordwainers' Hall, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Site n...
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Austin's Court
East out of St. Mary Hill, north of Cross Lane (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 173). In Billingsgate Ward....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Back Court
North out of Cloth Fair at No.21 and east, parallel to and between Long Lane and Cloth Fair (P.O. Di...
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Bakehouse Court
See Paul's Bakehouse Court.
...
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Balam's Court
Out of Angel Alley in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype 1720).
The site is now occupied by the lines...
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Baldwin's Court
North out of Cloak Lane at No.18, east of Tower Royal, in Vintry Ward (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831).
F...
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Bane's Court
West out of Old Jewry, north of St. Olave's Church. In Coleman Street Ward (O. and M. 1677).
In Str...
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Bangor Court
West out of Shoe Lane at No.63, in Farringdon Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Elmes, 1832).
The site wa...
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Barbican Court
North out of Barbican at No.67 in Aldersgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Horwood,...
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Barbolt Court
In Fleet Street in 1653 (H. MSS. Com. 5th Rep. 394). Not named in the maps.
...
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Barking Court
On the south side of Great Tower Street at No.40 (L.C.C. list, 1912). In Tower Ward.
So called in 1...
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(St.) Bartholomew Court
East out of Pie Corner, Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
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Bartlett Court
South out of Holborn between Bartlett's Buildings and Thavies Inn (Strype, 1720-Elmes, 1831).
In O....
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Bas Court, Barbican
Houses with gardens called "La Bas Court" by Crypelgate, 5 Ed. III.1331 (Cal. P.R. Ed. III.1330-4, p...
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Basinghall Court
East out of Basinghall Street, with a passage north to London Wall (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). In Bassi...
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Bassishaw Court
See Basinghall Court.
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Bear Court
1) East out of Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, 1720 and 1755).
Site now occupi...
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Beare Court
In the parish of St. Andrew in the Wardrobe, 1648 (Ct. H.W. II. 765).
Not further identified.
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Beckford Court
See Gateway Entrance.
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Bedford Court
Out of Basinghall Street (Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Beech Court
North out of Beech Street at No.42 (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
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Beehive Court
South out of Little St. Thomas Apostle at No.15, in Cordwainer Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
R...
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Bell Court
1) West out of Foster Lane, in Aldersgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1816), north of Bell Square.
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Bell's Court
In St. Michael's Lane (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Bengal Court
East out of Birchin Lane at No.21 (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill Ward. So named July, 1906 (L.C.C. Li...
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Berry Court
1) South out of Love Lane at No.6. In Cripplegate Ward Within (Elmes, 1831). (Seems to be shown in O...
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Bethlem Court
See Old Bethlem.
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Bevis Court
East out of Basinghall Street. In Bassishaw Ward (L.C.C. List, 1901).
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Bewitt's Court
East out of Fetter Lane. In Farringdon Ward Without.
See Blewitt's Buildings.
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Bib's Court
West out of Mugwell Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (detached) (O. and M. 1677).
Site now occupie...
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Billet Court
East out of Billiter Street. In Aldgate Ward (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799).
Other names : "Billiter Co...
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Billiter Court
1) North-west out of Billiter Square (O.S. 1880).
It seems to be shown in Rocque, 1746, but not nam...
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Bird's Court
West out of Philip Lane. In Cripplegarte Ward Within (Elmes, 1831), to Little Wood Street (Hatton,17...
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Bishops Court
1) In Chick Lane (W. Stow, 1722).
Not further identified.
2) West out of Old Bailey at No.17 (P.O....
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Bishop's Court
1) West out of Coleman Street at No.6. In Coleman Street Ward. (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
The si...
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Bishopshead Court
See Bishops Court2, Old Bailey.
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Blackamore Court
West out of Petticoat Lane and north to Seven Step Alley (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27 and ed. 1755)....
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Brush Court
South out of Upper East Smithfield, the second turning east from St. Katherine's Lane (Horwood, 1799...
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Buckle Court
Out of Houndsditch. In Bishopsgate Street Without (Strype, ed 1720, I. ii. 109).
No further referen...
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Bull Court
1) North out of Dunnings Alley. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
Also called : "Bull Yar...
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Bulliford Court
In Fenchurch Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in maps.
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