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Key Court
South out of Little St. Thomas Apostle, in Cordwainer Ward, east of Bow Lane (Strype, ed. 1720-Locki...
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Cross Court
Out of London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Cross Key Square
North out of Little Britain at No. 8 (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward Without.
First mention: H...
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Key
·noun A piece of wood used as a wedge.
II. Key ·noun A <<Keystone>>.
III. Key ·noun The last board...
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Key
Frequently mentioned in Scripture. It is called in Hebrew maphteah, i.e., the opener (Judg. 3:25); a...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Le Key
A brewhouse in the parish of All Saints in the Ropery ("Roperia"). (Anc. Deeds, A. 1683).
Seems to ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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key
I.
In ship-building, means a dry piece of oak or elm, cut tapering, to drive into scarphs that hav...
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Key
The key of a native Oriental lock is a piece of wood, from seven inches to two feet in length, fitte...
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Golden Key Court
South out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without, near Basinghall Postern (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, ...
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Cross
·noun Church lands.
II. Cross ·prep Athwart; across.
III. Cross ·vi To be inconsistent.
IV. Cross...
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Cross
In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ its...
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(Holy) Cross
See Crutched Friars.
...
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cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the conclusion.
...
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Cross
As the emblem of a slave's death and a murderer's punishment, the cross was naturally looked upon wi...
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Cross Keys Court
1) North-west out of Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
The site ...
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Gold Cross Court
See Golden Cross Court.
...
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Golden Cross Court
1) Out of Cateaton Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Named after the s...
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Red Cross Court
1) South out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 284, to Elmes, 1831)...
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Change key
·add. ·- A key adapted to open only one of a set of locks;
— distinguished from a master key.
...
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Key fruit
·add. ·- A <<Samara>>.
...
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Key tone
·- ·see <<Keynote>>.
...
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Key-cold
·adj Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
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Pass-key
·noun A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
...
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Space key
·add. ·- A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
...
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Split key
·add. ·- A key split at one end like a split pin, for the same purpose.
...
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Cambrigge Key
Sometime belonging to Thos. Litley, 1467-8 (Rolls of Pan. V. 610a).
No later reference.
...
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Childes Key
See Payneskey.
...
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Clare's Key
In Petty Wales, in parish of All Hallows Barking, left by Will of Roger James, 1591, to his wife, pr...
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Cock's Key
See Cox's Quay.
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Corbettes Key
Bequest by Richard Feldyng, mercer, to the Mercers' Company of tenements and a wharf, called "Corbet...
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Crown Key
Messuage and quay called "le Crowne Kay" in parish of St. Dunstan in the east in ward of the Tower o...
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Culver Key
Tenement called "le Culverkey" near Billingsgate, 2 H. VI. 1423 (Cal. L. Bk. K. p. 20).
Mentioned i...
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Customer's Key
See Custom House and Wool Quay.
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Dowse Key
Near Dice Key (W. Stow, 1722-Strype, ed. 1755).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Draper's Key
See Gibson's Key.
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Gaunt's Key
Between Hammond's Key east and Cox's Key west, in Billingsgate Ward (Rocque, 1746).
First mention: ...
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Gibson's Key
West of lane called Watergate, and south of Thames Street, belonging to Amisia Gibson, 32 H. VIII. (...
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Gilly Key
See Galley Quay.
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Grant's Key
Between Cox's Key east and Fresh Wharf west (O. and M. 1677).
Not named in the later maps.
...
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Haddock's Key
Appointed a general place for lading and discharging goods by Act of Parliament, 1559 (Strype, ed. 1...
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Hamond's Key
Three messuages and le key late Dodmer's and now Robert Hamondes in parish of St. Andrew next Baynar...
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Hatters Key
See Kneseworth Key.
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Horner's Key
Tenement called "Horners key" in Thames Street in parish of St. Dunstan in the East, 26 H. VI. (S. 1...
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(Thomas) Johnson's Key
For lading and discharging goods, appointed under Act of Parliament, 1559 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. ...
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Kneseworth Key
Messuage with wharf annexed belonging to Thomas Kneseworth, formerly called "Hatters Kaye," and now ...
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Lion Key
See Lyon Key.
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Lyon Key
On the Thames between Dark House Lane east and Botolph Wharf west. In Billingsgate Ward (Elmes, 1831...
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Marowe Key
Wm. Marowe left to his brother a book and "Marowe Key," 1504 (Ct. H.W. II. 606).
Probably near to G...
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Marowlowes Key
A structure forming part of a great messuage in the parish of St. Michael Quenhith extending from Po...
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Marroys Key
Capital messuage of Thomas Marrow called "Marroys Key," in parish of St. Mary at Hyll next Byllyngsg...
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New Key
The New Key as rebuilt after the Great Fire is shown in O. and M. 1677, extending along the river fr...
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Peter Key
The corner houses at the upper end of Peter's Hill towards the north, were so called in Stow's time ...
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Potter's Key
See Porter's Quay.
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Rauff's Key
See Ralph's Quay.
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Sabb's Key
West out of Little Bear Key (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
Earliest mention: " Sabbis key," 1516 (L...
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Skuttes Key
Rauff Skuttes key in London, 26 H. VIII. (L. and P. H. VIII. VIII. 129).
Not identified.
...
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Smart's Key
On the south side of Thames Street, fronting the river, east of Billingsgate, in parish of St. Mary ...
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Somar's Key
On the south side of Thames Street, fronting the river, next to Billingsgate west (S. 44).
Belonged...
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Sommer's Key
See Somar's Key.
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Stew Key
Lands and tenements in Petty Wales called " Stew key" in parish of All Hallows Barking, 1466 (Strype...
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Summer's Key
See Somar's Key.
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key-beer
ale, or a better sort of beer, kept under lock and key. Kent.
...
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key-model
In ship-building, a model formed by pieces of board laid on each other horizontally. These boards, b...
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Cross-armed
·adj With arms crossed.
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Cross-banded
·adj A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furnitu...
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Cross-bearer
·noun A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
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Cross-birth
·noun Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, ...
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Cross-bun
·noun A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
...
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Cross-buttock
·add. ·noun A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg a...
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Cross-crosslet
·noun A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
...
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Cross-days
·noun ·pl The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
...
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Cross-examination
·noun The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and...
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Cross-examine
·vt To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
...
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Cross-examined
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-examiner
·noun One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
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Cross-examining
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-eye
·noun ·see <<Strabismus>>.
...
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Cross-eyed
·adj Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
...
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Cross-fertilize
·add. ·vt To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual...
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Cross-fertilized
·add. ·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-fertilizing
·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-garnet
·noun A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an...
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Cross-pawl
·noun ·same·as Cross-spale.
...
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Cross-purpose
·noun A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
II. Cross-...
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Cross-question
·vt To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
...
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Cross-questioned
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-question.
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Cross-questioning
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-question.
...
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Cross-reading
·noun The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns,...
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Cross-spale
·noun ·Alt. of Cross-spall.
...
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Cross-spall
·noun One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position ...
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Cross-springer
·noun One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Il...
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Cross-staff
·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...
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Cross-stitch
·noun A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch cross...
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Cross-stone
·noun ·see <<Harmotome>>, and <<Staurotide>>.
...
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Cross-tail
·noun A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
...
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Cross-tie
·noun A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
...
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Cross-tining
·noun A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
...
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Cross-vaulting
·noun Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
...
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Cross-week
·noun Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
...
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Holy cross
·- The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
...
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Peltier's cross
·add. ·- A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.
...
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Red Cross
·add. ·- The crusaders or the cause they represented.
II. Red Cross ·add. ·- A hospital or ambulanc...
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Broken Cross
At the western end of Cheapside. near the church of St. Michael le Querne. Erected by the Earl of Gl...
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Cow Cross
See St. John Street.
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Cross Alley
North out of George Alley, with a passage west to Shoe Lane at No. 32. In Farringdon Ward Without (H...
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The Cross Keys
Messuages and tenements called the "Cross Keys" and the "Woodwharfe" near Paul's Wharf in parish of ...
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Cross Lane
1) East out of St. Mary-at-Hill to Harp Lane (P.O. Directory), crossing St. Dunstan's Hill. In Billi...
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Cross Street
West out of King Street to Milk Street Market, crossing Laurence Lane (Hatton, 1708-Strype, ed. 1755...
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The Golden Cross
The sign of the Golden Cross in Temys Street, 1538 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. (1), p. 220).
No later ...
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Holborn Cross
Near the Conduit at Snow Hill, in parish of St. Sepulchre. (Stow 387).
First mention: "Holbourn Cro...
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Holy Cross
See Holy Cross.
...
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Minories' Cross
In Agas' map at the junction of the Minories and Little Tower Hill.
It is also shown on Haiward and...
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(St.) Paul's Cross
At the north-east end of the Cathedral (O.S. 1880).
"About the middest of the Churchyard is a pulpi...
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Red Cross
1) In Watling Street. Rent given to parish of All Hallows, Bread_Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 1...
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White Cross
In an Inquisition 3 Ed. I. mention is made of water coming down from Smethefeld del Barbican in the ...
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cross dishonest
A cross cove; any person who lives by stealing or in a dishonest manner.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross bite
One who combines with a sharper to draw in a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint. CANT.--This ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross buttock
A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more pl...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross patch
A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
...
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weeping cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent.
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Southern Cross
n.
The constellation of theSouthern Cross is of course visible in places farther norththan Australi...
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criss-cross
1) A mark in the shape of a cross; especially that of those who cannot sign their own names. Mr. Har...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-eye
That sort of squint, by which both the eyes turn towards the nose, so that the rays, in passing to t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-fox
A fox whose color is between the common reddish-yellow and the silver-gray, having on its back a bla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-grained
Perverse; troublesome; vexatious.--Johnson.
Or what the plague did Juno mean,
That cross-grain'd...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-patch
An ill-tempered person. A vulgar word, used alike in England and America. Patch is a very old word o...
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criss-cross
The mark of a man who cannot write his name.
...
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cross-bars
Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor.
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cross-bitt
The same as cross-piece (which see).
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cross-bored
Bored with holes alternately on the edges of planks, to separate the fastenings, so as to avoid spli...
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cross-bow
An ancient weapon of our fleet, when also in use on shore.
...
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cross-chocks
Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heel...
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cross-fish
A northern name for the asterias or star-fish; so called from the Norwegian kors-fisk. Also, the Ura...
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cross-grained
Not straight-grained as in good wood; hence the perverse and vexatious disposition of the ne'er-do-w...
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cross-head
In a steamer's engine, is on the top of the piston-rod athwart the cylinder; and there is another fi...
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cross-pawls
See cross-spales.
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cross-piece
The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...
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cross-sea
A sea not caused by the wind then blowing. During a heavy gale which changes quickly (a cyclone, for...
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cross-somer
A beam of timber.
...
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cross-spales
or spalls.
Temporary beams nailed across a vessel to keep the sides together, and support the ship...
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cross-staff
See fore-staff.
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cross-swell
This is similar to a cross-sea, except that it undulates without breaking violently.
...
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cross-tail
In a steam-engine, is of the same form as the cylinder cross-head: it has iron straps catching the p...
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cross-tide
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.)
...
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cross-timbers
See cross-piece.
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cross-trees
Certain timbers supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees at the upper ends of the lower and top mas...
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southern cross
The popular name of a group of stars near the South Pole, which are somewhat in the figure of a cros...
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Court
·noun The session of a judicial assembly.
II. Court ·noun Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecc...
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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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Ambrose Thurstan's Key
Made a general place for lading and discharging goods by Act of Parliament, 1559 (Strype, ed. 1720, ...
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Andro Morris Key
Appointed a general place for lading and discharging goods by Act of Parliament, 1559 (Strype, ed. 1...
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Bear Key Stairs
On the river, opposite Harp Lane and Young's Key, west of Bear Key (Rocque, 1746).
Site occupied by...
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Belins-Gate Key
See Billingsgate Stairs.
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Billingsgate Key, Quay
See Billingsgate Stairs.
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Great Dice Key
It occupies the site of Smart's Key in O. and M. 1677, and Rocque, 1746, but in Strype it is shown b...
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Great Somer's Key
Between Lyons Key east and Dark House Lane west. In Billingsgate Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755)....
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Little Dice Key
See Dice Quay.
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Little Somer's Key
See Dark House Lane2, Somer's Key [Somar?].
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Somer's Key Gateway
Leading to Somars Key (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Thomas Johnson's Key
See (Thomas) Johnson's Key.
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Red Cross Court, Great Tower Street
See Red Cross Square.
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Andrew Cross Alley
Adjoining the church of St. Andrew Holborn on the west and called with other premises the " Church L...
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Cow Cross Street
See St. John Street.
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(Holy) Cross, Friars of
House of Crouched or Crossed Fryers founded 1298, at the south-east corner of Hart Street (S. 149). ...
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(Holy) Cross, West Smithfield
Ecclesia Sanctae Crucis infra Hospitale Sancti Bartholomaei in Westsmythefelde Londoniarum pertinet ...
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Cross in Cheapside
See Great Cross in Cheapside.
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Cross Keys Yard
See Cross Keys Alley.
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Cross Keys Alley
,Cross Keys Inn, Cross Keys Yard
East out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. an...
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Cross Keys Inn
1) On the south side of Holborn, in Farringdon Ward Without, east of Fetter Lane (O. and M. 1677).
...
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Holborn Cross Street
"Tenements in Holbourne crosse streete" belonging to Wm. Nuttall, 1559 (Ct. H.W. II. 670).
Perhaps ...
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The Red Cross, Cripplegate
Probably a house with this sign, for in an Inquisition 2 Ed. I. Alicia de Batonia is said to have di...
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Red Cross Alley
1) East out of Church Alley to London Bridge (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, i 799). In Bridge Ward Within.
Th...
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Red Cross Square
1) North out of Great Tower Street, between Mark Lane and Seething Lane (O.S. 25 in. 1880).
Earlies...
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Red Cross Street
North from No. 1 Fore Street to Barbican at No. 31 (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
F...
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Red Cross Tavern
In Barbican at No.32, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, ed .1720-Elmes, 1831).
...
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christ-cross row
The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's...
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holy-cross toad
n. See catholic frog.
...
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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cylinder cross-head
An adaptation on the top of the piston-rod, stretching out athwart the cylinder, from the ends of wh...
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jack cross-trees
Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts.
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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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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.
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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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Amen Court
West and north from Amen Corner and west out of Warwick Lane at No.12. In Farringdon Ward Within (P....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.