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Siloam, Tower, In
(Luke 13:4) Of this we know nothing definitely beyond these words of the Lord. In connection with Op...
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(St.) John's Chapel in the Tower
In the White Tower, Tower of London. A fine specimen of Norman architecture. Records kept there (De ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Tower
·vt To soar into.
II. Tower ·noun High flight; elevation.
III. Tower ·noun A citadel; a fortress; ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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tower
Clipped money: they have been round the tower with it. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Tower
Watch-towers or fortified posts in frontier or exposed situations are mentioned in Scripture, as the...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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White
·noun A white pigment; as, Venice white.
II. White ·superl Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; ...
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White
A symbol of purity (2 Chr. 5:12; Ps. 51:7; Isa. 1:18; Rev. 3:18; 7:14). Our Lord, at his transfigura...
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white
1) to requite ; as, God white you, God requite you. Chesh. Var. Dial.
2) to blame ; you lean all th...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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(St.) Peter ad Vincula in the Tower
On the west side of the Tower (O.S.).
In the Inner ward, at the north-west angle of the Parade (Bel...
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John the Baptist
The "forerunner of our Lord." We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. ...
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(St.) John the Baptist
See St. John the Baptist, Walbrook, and St. John Zachary.
...
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(St.) John the Evangelist
On the east side of Friday Street at its junction with Watling Street, in Bread Street Ward (S. 352-...
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John The Apostle
was the son of Zebedee, a fisherman on the Lake of Galilee, and of Salome, and brother of James, als...
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John The Baptist
was of the priestly race by both parents, for his father, Zacharias, was himself a priest of the cou...
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in the wind
The state of a vessel when thrown with her head into the wind, but not quite all in the wind (see al...
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Parish church in the Tower for the inhabitants there, in Tower ward (S. 492).
First mention: Founded probably Temp. H. I. Mentioned in reign of K. John, 1210 (Bell, p. 1 ; Clark,...
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John
·noun A proper name of a man.
...
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John
the grace or mercy of the Lord
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John
1) One who, with Annas and Caiaphas, sat in judgment on the apostles Peter and John (Acts 4:6). He w...
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john
A name given to dried fish. (See poor john.)
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John
the same name as Johanan, a contraction of Jehoanan, Jehovah's gift .
• One of the high priest's fa...
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in
in (old forms endŏ and indŭ, freq. in ante-class. poets; cf. Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4; id. ap. Macr. S...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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in
in I old indu, prep.with acc.or abl.
I I. With acc., in space, with verbs implying ent...
An Elementary Latin Dictionary
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in-
in- an inseparable particle cf. Gr. ἀ-, ἀν-; Germ. and Eng. un-, which, prefixed to an adj., negati...
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-in
·- A suffix. ·see the Note under -ine.
...
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In
·noun A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
II. In ·noun One who is in office;
— the opposite of ou...
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In-
·- An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- re...
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in
for into. Mr. Colman, in remarking upon the prevalence of this inaccuracy in New York, says: "We get...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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in
The state of any sails in a ship when they are furled or stowed, in opposition to out, which implies...
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Tower of the furnaces
(Neh. 3:11; 12:38), a tower at the north-western angle of the second wall of Jerusalem. It was proba...
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Liberties of the Tower
See Tower Liberty.
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(St.) Mary towards the Tower
Walter le Stockere left rents to the churches of St Mary towards the Tower and St. Leonard in Estche...
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Conning tower
·noun The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
...
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Martello tower
·- A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the sum...
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Water tower
·add. ·- A tower or standpipe used as a reservoir to deliver water at a required head, as to a fount...
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Le Bretask, Tower
There seem to have been at least two houses bearing this name in the City in the 14th century.
One ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Lollards' Tower
At either corner of the west end of St. Paul's were two Towers of stone, made for Bell Towers, one t...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Romeland, Tower
The whole ditch and plain without the Tower within the Postern,. called Romeland; in and of the City...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Sernes Tower
On the north side of Bucklersbury, in Cheap Ward (S. 262).
Originally the house of William Servat i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Tower Bank
On the eastern boundary of Tower Ward running north and south between Thames Street and Tower Street...
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Tower Bridge
Over the Thames, from the eastern boundary of the Tower to Southwark, parish of St. John Horseleydow...
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Tower Buildings
See Tower Chambers.
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Tower Chambers
On the north side of London Wall at No. 118, at the south-east corner of Finshury Pavement, facing o...
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Tower Ditch
Made by the Bishop of Ely while King Richard was in Palestine (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 9).
Land pu...
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Tower Dock
On Tower Hill, south from No.50 Great Tower Street to 46 Lower Thames Street (P.O. Directory).
Earl...
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Tower Hill
North and west of the Tower, west from the Minories and south to Tower Bridge (P.O. Directory). In P...
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Tower Liberty
Tower and fortifications with Tower Hill of the ancient demesne of the Crown with jurisdiction and p...
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Tower Postern
North of the Tower, by George Yard, between that yard and the Tower Ditch, at the southern terminati...
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Tower Royal
North out of Cannon Street, at No.75, to Budge Row (P.O. Directory). In Cordwainer Ward.
It formerl...
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Tower Street
West from Tower Hill to Eastcheap and St. Margaret Pattens Church (S. 132).
First mention: " La Tou...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Tower Subway
A circular iron tube under the Thames extending from Great Tower Hill on the north bank to Pickle He...
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Tower Ward
One of the twety-sex wards of the City (O.S. ).
With Aldgate Ward the most eastern within the walls...
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Tower Wharf
South out of and fronting the Tower, from Tower Stairs west to Tower Bridge east. Entrance on the so...
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Westsmithfield Tower
A tower so called in the Tower of London, 1461 (Cal. P.R. Ed. IV. 1461-7, p. 85).
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to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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martello tower
So named from a tower in the Bay of Mortella, in Corsica, which, in 1794, maintained a very determin...
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shield tower or turret
A revolving armoured cover for guns.
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(St.) John the Baptist, Walbrook
On the west side of Dowgate Hill, at the north-east corner of Cloak lane (Leake, 1666). In Walbrook ...
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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
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Ephraim in the wilderness
(John 11: 54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and ...
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Thorn in the flesh
(2 Cor. 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage.
1) Roman Catholic writers t...
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Burnt in the Fire 1666.
Not further identified.
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Le Cok in the Houpe
A tenement so called in parish of St. Alphege at London Wall 1349 (Ct. H.W. I. 566).
No further ref...
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(St.) Dunstan in the East
On the west side of St. Dunstan's Hill at No. 2 (P.O. Directory). In Tower Ward.
Earliest mention f...
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(St.) Dunstan in the West
On the north side of Fleet Street at No. 187 (P.O. Directory), between Fetter Lane and Chancery Lane...
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(St.) James' in the Temple
See Temple Church.
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(St.) Martin in the Jewry
Thomas the priest of St. Martin's in the Jewry is mentioned in a Deed about 1197, as witness to a gr...
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(St.) Olave in the Shamb1es
Parish mentioned in Will of Milo de Wynton, 1273-4 (Ct. H.W. I. 16).
Perhaps the church of St. Nich...
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Pye in the Royall
A Messuage so called in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Church, 1565 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 35).
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(St.) Stephen in the Jewry
See St. Stephen Coleman Street.
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(St.) Ursula in the Poultry
Seint Vrsula, chapel in the Pultry, mentioned in the list of Parish Churches of London in Arnold's C...
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babes in the wood
Criminals in the stocks, or pillory.
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dicked in the nob
Silly. Crazed.
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drop in the eye
Almost drunk.
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flush in the pocket
Full of money. The cull is flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money.
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shove in the mouth
A dram.
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ten in the hundred
An usurer; more than five in the hundred being deemed usurious interest.
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wheelband in the nick
Regular drinking over the left thumb.
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windmills in the head
Foolish projects.
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wolf in the breast
An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wolf in the stomach
A monstrous or canine appetite.
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to flash in the pan
To fail of success. A metaphor borrowed from a gun, which, after being primed and ready to be discha...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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down in the mouth
Dispirited, dejected, disheartened.--Brockett's Glossary.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dyed in the wool
Ingrained; thorough.
The Democrats, on the authority of Mr. Cameron's letter, are beginning to clai...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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cloth in the wind
Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy.
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cross in the hawse
Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two c...
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down in the mouth
Low-spirited or disheartened.
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elbow in the hawse
Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...
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flash in the pan
An expressive metaphor, borrowed from the false fire of a musket, meaning to fail of success after p...
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jack in the basket
A sort of wooden cap or basket on the top of a pole, to mark a sand-bank or hidden danger.
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jack in the box
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...
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jack in the dust
See jack in the bread-room
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lay in the oars
Unship them from the rowlocks, and place them fore and aft in the boat.
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sheet in the wind
Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man.
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square in the head
Very bluff and broad in the fore-body.
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turn in the hawse
Two crosses in a cable.
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wind in the teeth
Dead against a ship.
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Bezer In The Wilderness
a city of refuge in the downs on the east of the Jordan. (4:43; Joshua 20:8; 21:36; 1 Chronicles 6:7...
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Wandering In The Wilderness
[Wilderness Of The Wandering OF THE WANDERING]
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crossing the cables in the hatchway
A method by which the operation of coiling is facilitated; it alludes to hempen cables, which are no...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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The
·vi ·see <<Thee>>.
II. The (·art·def) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their me...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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(St.) Dunstan up towards the Tower
See St. Dunstan in the East.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Nicholas' Chapel, by the Tower
See SS. Mary and Nicholas Chapel by the Tower of London.
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Chapel in (St.) Dunstan in the East Churchyard
There was a chapel "upon the charnell in the chirch haue of Seint Dunstan in the Est," mentioned in ...
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Cream-white
·adj As white as cream.
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Snow-white
·adj White as snow; very white.
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Water-white
·noun A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and contain...
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White elephant
·add. ·- Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome posses...
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White fly
·add. ·- Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to s...
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White friar
·- A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. ·see ...
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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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White list
·add. ·- The official list of all transactions, published daily on white paper, divided into sales f...
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White mustard
·add. ·- A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pa...
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White person
·add. ·- A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256).
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White plague
·add. ·- Tuberculosis, ·esp. of the lungs.
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White slave
·add. ·- A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman fo...
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White slaver
·add. ·- A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White slaving
·add. ·- The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White-blaze
·noun ·see White-face.
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White-ear
·noun The <<Wheatear>>.
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White-eye
·noun Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops pal...
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White-face
·noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose;
— called also white-b...
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White-foot
·noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
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White-fronted
·adj Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
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White-heart
·noun A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
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White-hot
·adj White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
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White-limed
·adj Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
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White-livered
·adj Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
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White-pot
·noun A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, ·etc., baked in a pot.
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White-water
·noun A dangerous disease of sheep.
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White, Gilbert
(1720-1793)
Naturalist, b. at Selborne, Hants, and ed. along with the Wartons (q.v.) at their fathe...
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White Bear
In Abchurch Lane.
Destroyed in the Fire 1666.
Rebuilt as " Pontack's," for many years a famous tav...
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White Bull
Hostel so called in Westmythfeld, 1445 (Cal. L. Bk. K. p.310).
Not further identified.
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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 ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The White Hart
1) Tenement called the "Sygne de le Whyte Harte " in Westchepe in parish of St. Mary Colchurch, betw...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The White Harte
1) A messuage so called lying in St. Nicholas Fleshambles in parish of Christchurch, 1568 (Lond. I. ...
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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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White Street
West out of Moorfields, at No.39, to Moor Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
First...
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The White Swan
A messuage called the White Swan. In Great Eastcheap in parish of St. Leonard upon Fish street hill,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Yard
Out of Lamb Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I ii 108-Boyle, 1799).
The site i...
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lily white
A chimney-sweeper.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white feather
He has a white feather; he is a coward; an allusion to a game cock, where having a white leather is ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white-livered
Cowardly, malicious.
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white lie
A harmless lie, one not told with a malicious intent, a lie told to reconcile people at variance.
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white serjeant
A man fetched from the tavern or ale-house by his wife, is said to be arrested by the white serjeant...
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white swelling
A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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maori, white
New Zealand miners' name for a stone. See quotation.
1883. `A Citizen,' `Illustrated Guide to Duned...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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plum, white
n.
local name for Acacia (q.v.).
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white-bream
See silver-bream
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white wood
See waddy wood
...
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white-eye
n.
another name for the bird calledvariously Silver-Eye, Wax-Eye, Blight-Bird, etc., Zosterops (q.v...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white-face
n.
a name applied to the Australianbird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould. Another species isthe Chestnut...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white gallinule
n.
one of the birds of thefamily called Rails. The White Gallinule wasrecorded from New South Wales...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white-head
n.
a bird of New Zealand, Clitonyx albicapilla, Buller. Found in North Island,but becoming very rar...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white-pointer
n.
a New South Wales name forthe White-Shark. See Shark.
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white-top
n.
another name for Flintwood (q.v.).
...
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white-trevally
n.
an Australian fish.See Trevally.
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish and Fisheries of NewSout...
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white nib
a rook. Yorksh.
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white bite
The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...
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white bait or bite
The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...
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white caps
Waves with breaking crests, specially between the east end of Jamaica and Kingston; but obtaining ge...
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white feather
The figurative symbol of cowardice: a white feather in a cock's tail being considered a proof of cro...
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white-fish
A fish of the salmon family, found in the lakes of North America; also a name of the hard-head (whic...
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white-herring
A pickled herring in the north, but in other parts a fresh herring is so called.
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white-horse
A name of the Raia fullonica. (See also white caps.)
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white-lappelle
A sobriquet for a lieutenant, in allusion to his former uniform. (See lappelle.)
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white-rope
Rope which has not been tarred. Manilla, coir, and some other ropes, do not require tarring.
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white squall
A tropical wind said to give no warning; it sweeps the surface with spoon-drift.
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white-tape
A term amongst smugglers for hollands or gin.
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white-water
That which is seen over extensive sandy patches, where, owing to the limpidity and shallowness of th...
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White Hart on the Hoop
A tenement called "Whitehart," otherwise "Hyltonsyn," opposite the lane called Chancellors lane, 147...
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becket, the tacks and sheets in the
The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small k...
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Apple-john
·noun A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered;
— called also Johnapple.
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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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Cheap-john
·noun A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
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Doe, John
·add. ·- The fictitious lessee acting as plaintiff in the common-law action of ejectment, the fictit...
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Poor-john
·noun A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.
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Abercrombie, John
(1780-1844)
Physician and writer on mental science, s. of a minister, was b. at Aberdeen, and ed. a...
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Adolphus, John
(1768-1845)
Historian, studied law and was called to the Bar in 1807. He wrote Biographical Memoirs...
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Aikin, John
(1747-1822)
Miscellaneous writer, s. of Dr. John A., Unitarian divine, b. at Kibworth, studied medi...
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Hervey, John, Lord
(1696-1743)
Writer of memoirs, was a younger s. of the 1st Earl of Bristol. Entering Parliament he ...
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Heywood, John
(1497?-1580?)
Dramatist and epigrammatist, is believed to have been b. at North Mimms, Herts. He wa...
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Home, John
(1722-1808)
Dramatist, s. of the Town-Clerk of Leith, where he was b., ed. there and at Edin., and ...
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Hoole, John
(1727-1803)
Translator, s. of a watch-maker and inventor, was b. in London, and was in the India Ho...
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Howe, John
(1630-1705)
Puritan divine, b. at Loughborough, of which his f. was curate, studied at Camb., and b...
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Howie, John
(1735-1793)
Biographer, a Renfrewshire farmer, who claimed descent from an Albigensian refugee, wro...
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Hughes, John
(1677-1720)
Essayist and dramatist, was a clerk in the Ordnance Office, then sec. for the Commissio...
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Jortin, John
(1698-1770)
Ecclesiastical historian, ed. at Camb., and entering the Church held various benefices,...
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Keats, John
(1795-1821)
Poet, s. of the chief servant at an inn in London, who m. his master's dau., and d. a m...
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Keble, John
(1792-1866)
Poet and divine, s. of the Rev. John K., Vicar of Coln St. Aldwyn's, Gloucestershire, b...
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Kitto, John
(1804-1854)
Biblical scholar, s. of a Cornish stonemason, was b. at Plymouth. At the age of 12 a fa...
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Knox, John
(1505?-1572)
Reformer and historian, was b. near Haddington, and ed. at the Grammar School there an...
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Langhorne, John
(1735-1779)
Poet, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Kirkby Stephen; having taken orders, he was for two ...
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Leland or Leyland, John
(1506-1552)
Antiquary, b. in London, and ed. at St. Paul's School and at Camb., Oxf., and Paris. He...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin