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Horse
·noun ·see <<Footrope>>, ·adj.
II. Horse ·vi To get on horseback.
III. Horse ·adj A breastband for...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Horse
Always referred to in the Bible in connection with warlike operations, except Isa. 28:28. The war-ho...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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-head
(suffix.) A variant of -hood.
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Head
·noun Power; armed force.
II. Head ·noun The antlers of a deer.
III. Head ·noun Tiles laid at the ...
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head
n.
the rammer for crushing quartz ingold-mining.
1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p.7:
«Forty addi...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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head
face ; I told him to his head, I told him to his face. Berks.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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head
The upper part or end of anything, as a mast-head, a timber-head. Also, an ornamental figure on a sh...
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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...
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Horse-leech
Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are ...
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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 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...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Horse Yard
See Evans' Court, Basinghall Street.
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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...
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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 ...
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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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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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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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beak-head bulk-head
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship.
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Addle-head
·noun ·Alt. of Addle-pate.
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Cittern-head
·noun Blockhead; dunce;
— so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved hea...
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Cubbridge-head
·noun A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
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Death's-head
·noun A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of de...
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Dragon's head
·- ·Alt. of Dragon's tail.
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Feather-head
·noun A frivolous or featherbrained person.
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Giddy-head
·noun A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.
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Head gear
·noun ·Alt. of <<Headgear>>.
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Head-cheese
·noun A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pr...
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Head-hunter
·noun A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and ...
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Head-lugged
·adj Lugged or dragged by the head.
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Hot-head
·noun A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.
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Pope's head
·add. ·- A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, ·etc., also for washing windows.
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Shock-head
·adj Shock-headed.
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Snake's-head
·noun The Guinea-hen flower;
— so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales ...
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Torsion head
·add. ·- That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
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Tough-head
·noun The ruddy duck.
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Tow-head
·noun The hooded merganser.
II. Tow-head ·noun An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
III. Tow-head...
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Turk's-head
·add. ·noun The melon cactus.
II. Turk's-head ·add. ·noun Any of several species of Echinocactus.
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Woolly-head
·noun A <<Negro>>.
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Head-bands
(Heb. kishshurim), properly girdles or belts for the waist (Isa. 3:20, R.V., "sashes;" Jer. 2:32, re...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Head-dress
Not in common use among the Hebrews. It is first mentioned in Ex. 28:40 (A.V., "bonnets;" R.V., "hea...
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Bishop's Head
A messuage so called in Coleman Street in parish of St. Stephen 27 Eliz. 1585 (Lond. I. p.m. III. p....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Boar's Head
On the north side of Great Eastcheap in the parish of St. Clement Eastcheap, at Nos. 20-22, near the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bore's Head
Mentioned in Circuit of St. Giles' parish (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 87).
Boar's Head, Cripplegate,...
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The Bull Head
A tavern so called within the precinct of St. Martin le Grand, 32 H. viii. 1541 (L. and P. H. VIII. ...
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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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King's Head
1) Parish of St. Gregory.
A capital messuage, in parish of St. Gregory, in ward of Castle Baynard, ...
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Moryan's Head
In Bread Street, given to the Parish of All Hallows, 9 Eliz. (Strype, Ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
No la...
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Paul's Head
A hostel so called near " Poulescheyae" in parish of St. Gregory, in Castle Baynard Ward (Strype, Ed...
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The Rammes Head
Brewhouse of Roger James called "The Rammes Head" in parish of All Hallows Barking, 1591 (Maskell, p...
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Saracen's Head
1) See The Horse Head and King's Head.
2) South out of Little Carter Lane in parish of St. Mary Mag...
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cod's head
A stupid fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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head rails
Teeth.
SEA PHRASE.
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jolter head
A large head; metaphorically a stupid fellow.
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sheep's head
Like a sheep's head, all jaw; saying of a talkative man or woman.
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swelled head
A disorder to which horses are extremely liable, particularly those of the subalterns of the army. T...
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big-head
n.
a fish. The name is used locallyfor various fishes; in Australia it is Eleotrisnudiceps, Castln....
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.)
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bull-head
n.
The name is applied to manyfishes of different families in various parts of the world,none of wh...
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copper-head
n.
See under snake.
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head-station
n.
the principal buildings,including the owner's or manager's house, the hut, store, etc.,of a shee...
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leather-head
n.
another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.), Philemon corniculatus, Lath.See Tropidorhynchus.
1847. ...
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maori-head
n.
a swamp tussock, so called froma fancied resemblance to the head of a Maori. (Compare Black-boy....
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nigger-head
n.
1) Name given in New Zealandto hard blackstones found at the Blue Spur and other miningdistricts...
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white-head
n.
a bird of New Zealand, Clitonyx albicapilla, Buller. Found in North Island,but becoming very rar...
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yellow-head
n.
name given to a bird of NewZealand, Clitonyx ochrocephala, or Native Canary (q.v.), common in So...
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to head off
To get before; to intercept. Ex. 'The thief ran fast, but the officer managed to head him off.'
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head-cheese
The ears and feet of swine cut up fine, and, after being boiled, pressed into the form of a cheese.
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snake-head
An object of dread to travellers on railways. The end of an iron rail, which sometimes is thrown up ...
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gattle-head
a forgetful person. S.
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angel-head
The hook or barb of an arrow; probably angle-head.
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beetle-head
A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...
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billet-head
A carved prow bending in and out, contrariwise to the fiddle-head (scroll-head). Also, a round piece...
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black-head
The pewitt-gull (Larus ridibundus).
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blether-head
A blockhead.
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boulder-head
A work against the encroachment of the sea, made of wooden stakes.
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bull-head
, or bull-jub
A name of the fish called miller's thumb (Cottus gobio).
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cat-head
The cat-head passes through the bow-bulwark obliquely forward on a radial line from the fore-mast, r...
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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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dead-head
A kind of dolphin (which see). Also, a rough block of wood used as an anchor-buoy.
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dun-head
In east-country barges the after-planking which forms the cabin.
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family-head
When the stem was surmounted with several full-length figures, as was the custom many years ago.
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fell-head
The top of a mountain not distinguished by a peak.
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fiddle-head
When there is no figure; this means that the termination of the head is formed by a scroll turning a...
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figure-head
A carved bust or full-length figure over the cut-water of a ship; the remains of an ancient supersti...
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floor-head
This, in marine architecture, is the third diagonal, terminating the length of the floors near the b...
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futtock-head
In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings ...
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gilt-head
, or gilt-poll.
The Sparus aurata, a fish of the European and American seas, with a golden mark be...
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grey-head
A fish of the haddock kind, taken on the coast of Galloway.
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hard-head
The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...
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head-boards
The berthing or close-boarding between the head-rails.
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head-cringles
Earing-cringles at the upper clues or corners of a sail.
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head-earings
The laniards to haul out the earings. (See earings.)
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head-fast
A rope or chain employed to fasten the head of a ship or boat to a wharf or buoy, or to some other v...
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head-holes
The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...
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head-knees
Pieces of moulded compass timber fayed edgeways to the cut-water and stem, to steady the former. The...
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head-netting
An ornamental netting used in merchant ships instead of the fayed planking to the head-rails.
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head-piece
A term for the helmet.
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head-pump
A small pump fixed at the vessel's bow, its lower end communicating with the sea: it is mostly used ...
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head-quarters
The place where the general, or commanding officer, takes up his quarters. Also, the man-of-war, or ...
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head-rails
The short rails of the head, extending from the back of the figure to the cat-head: equally useful a...
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head-rope
That part of the bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is according...
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head-sails
A general name for all those sails which may be set on the fore-mast and bowsprit, jib, and flying j...
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head-sea
A name given to the waves when they oppose a ship's course, as the ship must rise over, or cut throu...
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head-sheets
Specially jibs and staysail sheets, before the fore-mast.
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head-stick
A short round stick with a hole at each end, through which the head-rope of some triangular sails is...
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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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head-wind
A breeze blowing from the direction of the ship's intended course. Thus, if a ship is bound N.E. a N...
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mast-head
The upper part of a mast above the rigging.
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ram-head
An old word for halliard-block.
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rudder-head
The upper end of the rudder-stock. Also, the flat surface of the trunk, which in cabins and ward-roo...
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scroll-head
A slightly curved piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure: finished of...
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skunk-head
An American coast-name for the pied duck.
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tiller-head
The extremity of the tiller, to which the tiller-ropes are attached.
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trundle-head
The lower drumhead of a capstern, when it is double, and worked on one shaft both on an upper and lo...
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turk's head
An ornamental knot, so called from resembling a turban, used on side-ropes, &c.; it is worked with a...
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warren-head
A northern term for a dam across a river.
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weather-head
The secondary rainbow.
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Black Horse Alley
1) East out of Golden Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
Site now occupied by offi...
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Black Horse Court
1) West out of Aldersgate Street in Aldersgate Ward Without, south of Long Lane (Rocque, 1746-Boyle,...
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Black Horse Inn
1) On the west side of Water Lane, Whitefriars, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1...
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Black Horse Stables
West out of Minories, at its southern end (Rocque, 1746). In Portsoken Ward.
Site has been rebuilt....
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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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Flying Horse Court
1) North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype...
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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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Horse Shoe Court
North out of Ludgate Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without, west of Old Bailey (Bacon, 1912).
First ment...
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Horse-shoe Bridge
A bridge over the stream of the Walbrook by the church of St. John upon Walbrook (S. 27 and 230).
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Horse-shoe Passage
In Foster Lane (Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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White Horse Alley
1) South out of Holborn, east of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Stok...
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White Horse Court
1) East out of Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward, between Lillypot Lane and Oat Lane (Strype, 1720 an...
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White Horse Inn
1) On the east side of Wood Street at No.30, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Rocque, 1746-Lockie, 1816)....
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