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Flying Horse Yard
1) East out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : "Wh...
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Flying Horse Court, Yard
North out of Fleet Street to Serjeants Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799)....
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Horse Yard
See Evans' Court, Basinghall Street.
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Flying Horse Court
1) North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Inn, Yard, Houndsditch
East out of Bishopsgate Street and north to Houndsditch, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677...
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Flying
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Fly>>.
II. Flying ·vi Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightl...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Broad
·superl Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
II. Broad ·superl Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
III. B...
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Magpy Yard, Bishopsgate
See Magpy Alley.
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Swan Yard, Bishopsgate
See One Swan Yard.
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Way
·noun Progress; as, a ship has way.
II. Way ·adv <<Away>>.
III. Way ·noun Sphere or scope of obser...
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way
Is sometimes the same as the ship's rake or run, forward or backward, but is most commonly understoo...
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Bishopsgate
One of the seven double gates of the City referred to by Fitz Stephen, leading out of the City on th...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Yard, Half Moon Alley
West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, south of Half Moon Alley (P.C. 1732-Elm...
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Black Horse Yard
1) East out of Little Britain at No.30, four doors north of Cox's Court (Strype, ed. 1755-Lockie, 18...
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White Horse Yard
1) West out of Coleman Street at No.15, in Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Lea...
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White Horse Yard, Old Broad Street
See Flying Horse Yard.
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Horse
·noun ·see <<Footrope>>, ·adj.
II. Horse ·vi To get on horseback.
III. Horse ·adj A breastband for...
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Horse
Always referred to in the Bible in connection with warlike operations, except Isa. 28:28. The war-ho...
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horse
A foot-rope reaching from the opposite quarter of a yard to its arms or shoulders, and depending abo...
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Horse
The most striking feature in the biblical notices of the horse is the exclusive application of it to...
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George Yard, Bishopsgate Without
See George and Catherine Wheel Alley.
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Horse and Groom Yard
North out of Holborn Hill at 129, nearly opposite Fetter Lane (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831).
Not named...
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Horse and Trumpet Yard
East out of Crutched Friars, No. 17 (Elmes, 1831). In Aldgate Ward.
First mention: Rocque, 1746.
O...
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White Horse Inn, Yard
On the south side of Fore Street, east of Cripplegate. In Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-B...
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White Horse Yard, Inn
South out of London Wall, in Broad Street Ward, opposite Bethlehem Hospital (O. and M. 1677-Lockie, ...
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Flying boat
·add. ·- A compact form of hydro-aeroplane having one central body, or hull.
...
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Flying fish
·- A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its larg...
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Flying squirrel
·- One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds...
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flying camps
Beggars plying in a body at funerals.
...
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flying giggers
Turnpike gates.
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flying house
A lock in wrestling, by which he who uses it throws his adversary over his head.
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flying pasty
Sirreverence wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour's wall.
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flying porters
Cheats who obtain money by pretending to persons who have been lately robbed, that they may come fro...
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flying stationers
Ballad-singers and hawkers of penny histories.
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flying-fox
n. a gigantic Australian bat, Pteropus poliocephalus, Temm. It has a fetid odour anddoes great damag...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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flying-mouse
n.
See opossum-mouse and flying-phalanger.
...
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flying-phalanger
n.
included in the classof Phalanger (q.v.). The «flying» Phalangers «havedeveloped large parachute...
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flying-squirrel
n.
popular name for aFlying-Phalanger, Petaurus sciureus, Shaw, a marsupialwith a parachute-like fo...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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kite flying
An expression well known to mercantile men of limited means, or who are short of cash. It is a combi...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flying about
Synonymous with chop-about (which see).
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flying column
A complete and mobile force kept much on the move, for the sake of covering the designs of its own a...
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flying dutchman
A famous marine spectre ship, formerly supposed to haunt the Cape of Good Hope. The tradition of sea...
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flying jib
A light sail set before the jib, on the flying jib-boom. The third jib in large ships, as the inner ...
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flying-kites
The very lofty sails, which are only set in fine weather, such as skysails, royal studding-sails, an...
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flying-light
The state of a ship when she has little cargo, provisions, or water on board, and is very crank.
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flying-to
Is when a vessel, from sailing free or having tacked, and her head thrown much to leeward, is coming...
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set flying
Sails that do not remain aloft when taken in, but are hauled on deck or stowed in the tops, as skysa...
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Yard
·vi A branch; a twig.
II. Yard ·vi A rod; a stick; a staff.
III. Yard ·vi The <<Penis>>.
IV. Yard...
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yard
A measure of length, consisting of 3 feet.
[Anglo-Saxon gyrde]. A long cylindrical timber suspende...
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Broad Church
·- A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respec...
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Broad gauge
·- A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half...
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Broad seal
·- The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.
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Broad-brimmed
·adj Having a broad brim.
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Broad-horned
·adj Having horns spreading widely.
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Broad-leafed
·adj Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
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Broad-leaved
·adj ·Alt. of Broad-leafed.
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Broad Alley
In parish of St. Margaret Lothbury, mentioned in will of Sir Henry Kebyll, 1514. Site now covered by...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Broad Court
See St. James' Place.
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Broad Street
See Old Broad Street, New Broad Street, Little Broad Street.
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Broad Walk
In the Tower precincts (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Also called "Northumberland Place" in P.C. Survey.
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broad-leaf
n.
a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea.
1879. W. N. Blair, `Bu...
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broad arrow
The royal mark for government stores of every description. To obliterate, deface, or remove this mar...
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broad axe
Formerly a warlike instrument; also for beheading; specially applied to the axe of carpenters for ma...
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broad cloth
Square sails.
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broad pennant
A swallow-tailed piece of buntin at the mast-head of a man-of-war; the distinctive mark of a commodo...
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broad r.
See broad arrow.
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Four-way
·adj Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
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Three-way
·adj Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
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Two-way
·add. ·adj Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way c...
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Water way
·- ·same·as Water course.
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Way shaft
·- A rock shaft.
II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.
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Way-going
·adj Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.
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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2.
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Way-wise
·adj Skillful in finding the way; well acquainted with the way or route; wise from having traveled.
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way-bill
A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance.
...
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carpet-way
a green way, a way on the turf. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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gainest-way
the nearest way. N.
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leech-way
the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm.
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spur-way
a bridle-way through any ground, a passage for a horse by right of custom. S.
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way-bit
(or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...
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way-bread
plantain ; from the Saxon WJEG !!!BR.EDE, so called, because growing every where in streets and ways...
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whapple-way
a bridle-way, or road where only a horse can pass. S.
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companion-way
The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin.
...
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covered way
In fortification, a space running along the outside of the ditch for the convenient passage of troop...
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covert-way
See covered way.
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drift-way
Synonymous with lee-way.
...
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fair-way
The navigable channel of a harbour for ships passing up or down; so that if any vessels are anchored...
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freshen way
When the ship feels the increasing influence of a breeze. Also, when a man quickens his pace.
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fresh way
Increased speed through the water; a ship is said to "gather fresh way" when she has tacked, or hove...
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give way
The order to a boat's crew to renew rowing, or to increase their exertions if they were already rowi...
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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...
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lee-way
What a vessel loses by drifting to leeward in her course. When she is sailing close-hauled in a smoo...
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milky way
See via lactea.
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right way
When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor.
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sea-way
The progress of a ship through the waves. Also, said when a vessel is in an open place where the sea...
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steerage-way
When a vessel has sufficient motion in the water to admit of the helm being effective.
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stern-way
The movement by which a ship goes stern foremost. The opposite of head-way.
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stoach-way
The streamlet or channel which runs through the silt or sand at low-water in tidal ports; a term pri...
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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly.
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under way
A ship beginning to move under her canvas after her anchor is started. Some have written this under ...
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'way up!
See way aloft!
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'way aloft!
or 'way up!
The command when the crew are required aloft to loose, reef, furl sails, or man yards,...
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way-gate
The tail-race of a mill.
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wrong way
When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...
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Bishopsgate, Street
North from Leadenhall Street and Cornhill to Norton Folgate (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Wards W...
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Bishopsgate Avenue
South out of Camomile Street at No.7 (P.O. Directory). In Lime Street Ward.
First mention: O.S. 187...
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Bishopsgate Buildings
West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Elmes, 1831-O.S. 1888).
Former name : ...
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Bishopsgate Churchyard
West out of Bishopsgate at No.109 to New Broad Street south of St. Botolph's Church (P.O. Directory)...
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Bishopsgate Hermitage
Hermitage near Bishopsgate granted for life to Stephen called "le Roo," provided he lived as became ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bishopsgate Institute
On the east side of Bishopsgate Street, north of Artillery Lane. In Bishopsgate Ward Without.
Opene...
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Bishopsgate Poorhouse
In Rose Alley, Bishopsgate Without, a few yards from No. 34, near New Street (Lockie, 1810).
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Bishopsgate Station
See Liverpool Street Stations.
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Bishopsgate Ward
One of the twenty-six Wards of London, west of and adjoining to Aldgate and Portsoken Wards. It is o...
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Brodegate, Bishopsgate
Tenements under the Brodegate in the parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, 3 Eliz. 1561 (Lond. ...
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Lamb Yard, Lamb's Yard, Lamb Alley, Bishopsgate
See Lamb Court.
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Bottle Alley, Bottle Yard, Bishopsgate
See Brittania Place.
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Brown's Yard, Angel Alley, Bishopsgate
See Brown's Court.
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Hoare's Yard, Lamb Alley, Bishopsgate
See Smith's Buildings and Slade's Buildings.
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White Horse Court, Old Broad Street
See Union Court; White Horse Inn, Yard.
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Black Horse Yard, Harrow Alley
West out of Harrow Alley, Middlesex Street (O. and M. 1677-Rocque, 1746). In Portsoken Ward.
See Ro...
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White Horse Yard, Seething Lane
East out of Seething Lane, south of the Navy Office (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former name: "Carr ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Horse Guards
·- A body of cavalry so called; ·esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furn...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Horse power
·- The power which a horse exerts.
II. Horse power ·- A machine worked by a horse, for driving othe...
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Horse-chestnut
·noun The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed ...
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Horse-drench
·noun A dose of physic for a horse.
II. Horse-drench ·noun The appliance by which the dose is admin...
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Horse-jockey
·noun A trainer and dealer in horses.
II. Horse-jockey ·noun A professional rider and trainer of ra...
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Horse-leech
·noun A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
II. Horse-leech ·noun A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis...
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Horse-leechery
·noun The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
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Horse-litter
·noun A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
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Horse-radish
·noun A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pun...
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One-horse
·adj Second-rate; inferior; small.
II. One-horse ·adj Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse...
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Rear-horse
·noun A <<Mantis>>.
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Rocking-horse
·noun The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
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Sea horse
·- The <<Walrus>>.
II. Sea horse ·- Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
III. Sea horse ·- A fabulou...
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Shire horse
·add. ·- One of an English breed of heavy draft horses believed to be descended largely from the hor...
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Stalking-horse
·noun Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.
II. Stalking-horse ·no...
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Stone-horse
·noun <<Stallion>>.
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Stud-horse
·noun A stallion, ·esp. one kept for breeding.
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White horse
·add. ·- A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper ja...
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Horse-gate
A gate in the wall of Jerusalem, at the west end of the bridge, leading from Zion to the temple (Neh...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Horse-leech
Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Horse Alley
1) Messuages in Horse Alley, Shoe Lane, part of the manor of Holbourne, 23 Eliz. (Proc. in Chanc. II...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Horse Head
A capital messuage or tenement so called in Thames Street given to St. Dunstan's Church (Strype, ed....
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The Horse Mill
Tenement called "le Horsmylle" in Graschirchstrete in parish of St. Peter upon Cornhulle granted to ...
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The Horse Shoe
1) On the north side of Great Eastcheap at Nos. 20-22, near the Boar's Head (q.v.), in the parish of...
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The White Horse
1) A messuage in Holborne and Fetter Lane, 33 Eliz. (Lond. I p.m. III. 153).
Qy. = White Horse Alle...
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banks's horse
A horse famous for playing tricks, the property of one Banks. It is mentioned in Sir Walter Raleigh'...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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butcher's horse
That must have been a butcher's horse, by his carrying a calf so well; a vulgar joke on an awkward r...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead horse
To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid.
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hobby horse
A man's favourite amusement, or study, is called his hobby horse. It also means a particular kind of...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse buss
A kiss with a loud smack; also a bite.
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horse coser
A dealer in horses: vulgarly and corruptly pronounced HORSE COURSER. The verb TO COSE was used by th...
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horse godmother
A large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of a lady.
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horse ladder
A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring fa...
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religious horse
One much given to prayer, or apt to be down upon his knees.
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running horse
or NAG
A clap, or gleet.
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scarlet horse
A high red, hired or hack horse: a pun on the word HIRED.
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wooden horse
To fide the wooden horse was a military punishment formerly in use. This horse consisted of two or m...
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horse-mackerel
n.
The name is applied inSydney to the fish Auxis ramsayi, Castln., family Scombridae. In New Zeala...
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stock-horse
n.
horse accustomed to go aftercattle used in mustering and cutting-out (q.v.).
1874. W. H. L. Ran...
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clothes-horse
A frame-work for hanging clothes on to dry after they have been washed and ironed, in the form of an...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead horse
Work for which one has been paid before it is performed. When a workman, on Saturday night, includes...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-colt
"We frequently see in advertisements these terms, horse-colt, mare-colt, &c. A horse-colt is simply ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-foot
(Genus, polyphemus. Lamarck.) The common name of a crustacea, found in our waters from Massachusetts...
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wheel-horse
An intimate friend; one's right hand man. Western.
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horse-block
, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lane.
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horse-knops
heads of knapweed. N.
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thill-horse
the shaft-horse. N.
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dead-horse
A term applied by seamen to labour which has been paid for in advance. When they commence earning mo...
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fillet-horse
The horse employed in the shafts of the limbers.
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flemish horse
, is the outer short foot-rope for the man at the earing; the outer end is spliced round a thimble o...
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horse-cockle
See gawky
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hard-horse
A tyrannical officer.
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horse-artillery
A branch of field artillery specially equipped to manœuvre with cavalry, having lighter guns, and al...
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horse-buckets
Covered buckets for carrying spirits or water in.
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horse-buckle
The great whelk.
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horse-foot
A name of the Limulus polyphemus of the shores of America, where from its shape it is called the hor...
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horse-latitudes
A space between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade-winds, notorious for tedious ca...
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horse-mackerel
A large and coarse member of the Scomber family, remarkably greedy, and therefore easily taken, but ...
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horse-marine
An awkward lubberly person. One out of place.
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horse-mussel
See duck-mussel.
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horse-potatoes
The old word for yams.
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horse-power
A comparative estimate of the capacity of steam-engines, by assuming a certain average effective pre...
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horse-shoe
In old fortification, a low work of this plan sometimes thrown up in ditches.
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horse-tongue
A name applied to a kind of sole.
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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irish horse
Old salt beef: hence the sailor's address to his salt beef
"Salt horse, salt horse, what brought y...
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iron-horse
The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller.
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light-horse
A name formerly given to all mounted men who were not encumbered with armour.
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mainsheet-horse
A kind of iron dog fixed at the middle of a wooden beam, stretching across a craft's stern, from one...
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old horse
Tough salt-beef.
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race-horse
(Alca?) A duck of the South Seas; thus named, says Cook, for "the great swiftness with which they ru...
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sea-horse
A name for the walrus, Trichecus rosmarus. Also, the hippocampus (which see).
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traverse-horse
See jack-stays.
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water-horse
Cod-fish stacked up in a pile to drain, under the process of cure.
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white-horse
A name of the Raia fullonica. (See also white caps.)
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flying jib-boom
A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...
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Fasal Cock Yard, Angel Alley, Bishopsgate
See Pheasant Court.
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Little Broad Street
South from Throgmorton Street to Threadneedle Street. In Broad Street Ward (Strype, 1720-Lond. Guide...
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