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Rose and Crown Alley
1) See Rose and Crown Court, St. Katherine's Lane.
2) South out of Fleet Street, at No.62, to the T...
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Rose and Crown Court
1) East out of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
Site now covered by Blewit...
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Rose and Crown Court, Houndsditch
West out of Houndsditch, adjoining the old line of the Wall of London. 'In Portsoken Ward (O. and M....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bell and Crown
On the north side of Holborn, east of Furnival's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without. The southern porti...
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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
...
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Rose
·- imp. of Rise.
II. Rose ·vt To perfume, as with roses.
III. Rose ·Impf of <<Rise>>.
IV. Rose ·n...
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Rose
Many varieties of the rose proper are indigenous to Syria. The famed rose of Damascus is white, but ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The Rose
1) On the boundary of St. Katherine Creechurch parish (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 64).
Not otherwise ...
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rose
Under the rose: privately or secretly. The rose was, it is said, sacred to Harpocrates, the God of s...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rose
n.
name given to the Australian shrub, Boronia serrulata, Sm., N.O. Rutaceae. It hasbright green le...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rose
, or strainer.
A plate of copper or lead perforated with small holes, placed on the heel of a pump...
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Rose
occurs twice only, viz. in (Song of Solomon 2:1; Isaiah 35:1) There is much difference of opinion as...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Crown
·- ·p.p. of Crow.
II. Crown ·noun The dome of a furnace.
III. Crown ·- of <<Crow>>.
IV. Crown ·no...
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Crown
1) Denotes the plate of gold in the front of the high priest's mitre (Ex. 29:6; 39:30). The same Heb...
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Crown
1) (Le Crown)
A messuage so called in parish of St. Andrew in Holborn, 31 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III....
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crown
I.
A common denomination in most parts of Europe for a silver coin, varying in local value from 2 ...
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Crown
This ornament, which is both ancient and universal, probably originated from the fillets used to pre...
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Rose and Crown Court, St. Katherine's Lane
East out of St. Katherine's Lane, nearly opposite Flemings' Church Yard (Rocque, 1746-Lockie, 1810)....
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Rose and Rainbow Court
East out of Aldersgate Street in Aldersgate Ward Without, south of Maidenhead Court (Elmes, 1831).
...
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Crown and Cushion Court
South out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831).
Former name : "Bore's...
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Crown and Horseshoe Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 6 to the Thames (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward.
F...
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Crown and Sheaf Place
See Crown and Sheers Place.
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Crown and Shears Place
See Crown and Sheers Place.
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Crown and Sheers Alley
See Crown and Sheers Place.
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Crown and Sheers Court
See Crown and Sheers Place.
...
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Crown and Sheers Place, Royal Mint Street
North out of Royal Mint Street. In. Portsoken Ward (L.C.C. List of Streets, 1901).
Former names : "...
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Fox and Crown Court
1) South out of Barbican in Aldersgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720-Boyle, 1799).
The site is now...
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Hand and Crown Alley
North out of Holborn, opposite Holborn Bridge, between King's Arms Inn and Swan Inn, in Farringdon W...
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Hand and Crown Court
1) North-east out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-Boyle, 1799).
Remo...
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Crown Court, Crown Inn
On the south side of Newgate Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799). West of R...
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Cop-rose
·noun The red, or corn, poppy.
...
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Cup-rose
·noun Red poppy. ·see Cop-rose.
...
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Dog-rose
·noun A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
...
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Gelder-rose
·noun ·same·as Guelder-rose.
...
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Gy-rose
·adj Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.
...
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Memorial rose
·add. ·- A Japanese evergreen rose (Rosa wichuraiana) with creeping branches, shining leaves, and si...
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Provence rose
·- The cabbage rose (Rosa centifolia).
II. Provence rose ·- A name of many kinds of roses which are...
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Rose water
·- Water tinctured with roses by distillation.
...
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Rose-colored
·adj Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.
II. Rose-colored ·adj Un...
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Rose-cut
·adj Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows;
— said of...
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Rose-pink
·adj Disposed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental.
II. Rose-pink ·adj Having...
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Rose-red
·adj Red as a rose; specifically (Zool.), of a pure purplish red color.
...
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Rose-rial
·noun A name of several English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different va...
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Rose-water
·adj Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental.
...
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Red Rose
See Rose, Manor of.
...
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Le Rose Aleye
An Alley called" le Rose Aleye " near the graveyard of the Charter house, 22 Ed. IV. (Anc. Deeds, B....
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Rose Alley
1) East out of Bishopsgate, at No.178, to New Street (P.O. Directory) In Bishopsgate Ward Without.
...
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Rose Court
1) In Jewin Street (Strype, ed. 1755-L. Guide, 1758).
Not named in the maps.
2) Out of Addle Hill,...
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Rose Inn
1) In Fleet Street, belonging to the Monastery of Rochester (Dugdale, I.).
No later mention.
2) Ne...
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Rose Street
South out of Newgate Street, at No.20, to Paternoster Square (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Wi...
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Rose Tavern
On the west side of Chancery Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
Site rebuilt for offi...
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rose-apple
n.
another name for the SweetPlum. See under plum.
...
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rose-bush
a timber-tree, Eupomatia laurina,R. Br., N.O. Anonaceae.
...
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rose-hill
n.
The name is given by Gould asapplied to two Parrakeets:
1) Platycercus eximius, Vig. and Hors.,...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rose, native
n.
i.q. bauera (q.v.).
...
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cop-rose
papaver rhaeas : called also head work. N.
...
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rose-lashing
This lashing is middled, and passed opposite ways; when finished, the ends appear as if coiled round...
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Copple-crown
·noun A created or high-topped crown or head.
...
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Crown colony
·add. ·- A colony of the British Empire not having an elective magistracy or a parliament, but gover...
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Crown office
·- The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of th...
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Crown side
·- ·see Crown office.
...
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Crown wheel
·- A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane;
— called also a contrate wheel or f...
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Crown-imperial
·noun A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the ...
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Crown-post
·noun ·same·as King-post.
...
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Crown-saw
·noun A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotat...
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Crown Alley
In Bridewell precinct by Fleet Ditch (W. Stow, 1722).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Crown Buildings
In Crown Court, Old Broad Street (L.C.C. List, 1912).
...
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Crown Court
1) South out of Cheapside at No. 64, next to Sir John Bennett's (P.O Directory). In Cheap Ward.
Fir...
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Crown Inn
1) At the northern end of Faulcon Court, Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720 ...
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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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Crown Tavern
1) See Crown Place, Aldgate High Street.
2) In a court, south out of Leadenhall Street, adjoining t...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Crown Yard
West out of Bishopsgate Street in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and N. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
The London...
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crown office
The head. I fired into her keel upwards; my eyes and limbs Jack, the crown office was full; I s--k-d...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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woolley crown
A soft-headed fellow.
...
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crown-work
In fortification, the largest definite form of outwork, having for its head two contiguous bastioned...
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double-crown
A name given to a plait made with the strands of a rope, which forms part of several useful and orna...
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obsidional crown
The highest ancient Roman military honour; the decoration of the chief who raised a siege.
...
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rostral-crown
The naval crown anciently awarded to the individual who first boarded an enemy's ship.
...
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Cock and Crown Court, Aldersgate
See Rose and Rainbow Court.
...
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Rose and Ball Court. Addle Hill
See Rose Court.
...
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Rose, William Stewart
(1775-1843)
Poet and translator, s. of George R., who held various Government offices, including th...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Coleridge, Christabel Rose
(b. 1843)
Novelist. Lady Betty (1869), The Face of Carlyon (1875), An English Squire (1881), A Near...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Rose, John Holland
Litt.D.
(1855)
Historical and biographical writer. A Century of Continental History, The Revolutio...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Red Rose Alley
East out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720-Elmes, 1831).
"Red Ro...
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Red Rose Court
See Red Rose Alley.
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Redo Rose Lane
See Pudding Lane, Eastcheap.
...
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The Rose, Manor of
On the west side of Laurence Pountney Hill, extending to 8uffolk Lane. In Dowgate Ward (S. 239). Par...
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Rose Alley, Bishopsgate
See George and Catherine Wheel Alley.
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Rose Court, Aldermanbury
See Hadley's Court.
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Rose Court, Bishopsgate
See Rose Alley.
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White Rose Court
South out of Widegate Street to Middlesex Street (L.C.C. List, 1912).
First mention: Lockie, 1810.
...
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White Rose Place
East out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype ,ed. 1720-O.S.1880).
Former name...
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Crown of thorns
Our Lord was crowned with a, in mockery by the Romans (Matt. 27:29). The object of Pilate's guard in...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Crown Alley, Houndsditch
South-west out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Not shown in the later maps and ...
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Crown Alley, Minories
West out of the Minories. In Portsoken Ward (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : "Crown Court" (O...
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Crown Court, Bethlem
North out of Old Bethlem. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, 1720 and 1755).
See Baker's Building...
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Crown Court, Minories
See Crown Alley.
...
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Crown Court, Moorfields
East out of Moorfields. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
Called "Three Tun...
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Crown Office Row
On the north side of the Inner Temple Gardens, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory).
First ...
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Three Crown Alley
1) See Three Crown Court, Minories.
2) South-west out of Houndsditch (O. and M. 1677).
Site rebuil...
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Three Crown Court
1) West out of Garlick Hill, in Vintry Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
See Church Place.
2) Wes...
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Crown Of Thorns
(Matthew 27:29) Our Lord was crowned with thorns in mockery by the Roman soldiers. Obviously some sm...
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Rose Alley, Newgate Market
See Rose Street.
...
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Rose Alley, Widegate Street
See White Rose Court.
...
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Rose Court, Tower Hill
West out of Tower Hill, south of Muscovy Court (Strype, ed. 1720 and 1755).
Seems to have been rebu...
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Rose Court, Tower Street
South out of Great Tower Street at No. 41. In Tower Ward (P.O. Directory).
Earliest mention: O. and...
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Crown Alley, Petticoat Lane
South-west out of Petticoat Lane (Middlesex Street). In Portsoken Ward (Boyle, 1799).
Earliest ment...
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Crown Alley, Tudor Street
See Crown Court.
...
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Crown Court, Cartwright Street
At the south-east end of Cartwright Street, the eastern side leading into Butler's Buildings, Upper ...
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Crown Court, Crutched Friars
North out of Crutched Friars. In Aldgate Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Site has been rebuilt for offices a...
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Crown Court, Foster Lane
See Three Crown Court.
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Crown Court, Throgmorton Street
See White Lyon Court.
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Crown Inn, Newgate Market
See Crown Court6, Warwick Lane.
...
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Three Crown Court, Minories
West out of the Minories. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Former names: "Thre...
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Castor and Pollux
·- ·see Saint Elmo's fire, under <<Saint>>.
...
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
...
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In and an
·adj & ·adv Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. ·see under <<Breeding>...
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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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Lords and Ladies
·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
...
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tops-and-bottoms
·noun ·pl Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food fo...
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
·add. ·- Two things practically alike;
— a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "O...
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Azur and Azzur
Helper.
1) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1).
2) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. ...
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
...
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Castor and Pollux
The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or scul...
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Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubi...
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Tryphena and Tryphosa
Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
...
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
...
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird and baby
The sign of the eagle and child.
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
...
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bubble and squeak
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...
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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
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buttock and file
A common whore and a pick-pocket. Cant.
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buttock and twang, or down buttock and sham file
A common whore, but no pickpocket.
...
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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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to chop and change
To exchange backwards and forwards. To chop, in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurryin...
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ducks and drakes
To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or...
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gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.
...
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gog and magog
Two giants, whose effigies stand on each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom there is a ...
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guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels...
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here and thereian
One who has no settled place of residence.
...
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hide and seek
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
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inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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milk and water
Both ends of the busk.
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monks and friars
Terms used by printers: monks are sheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black; friars...
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orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second ...
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pothooks and hangeks
A scrawl, bad writing.
...
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quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...
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quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
...
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roaratorios and uproars
Oratorios and operas.
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roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...
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six and tips
Whisky and small beer. IRISH.
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sixes and sevens
Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, &c. is sca...
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tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...
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chock-and-log
n. and adj.
a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tagrag-and-bobtail
n.
a species of sea-weed.See quotation.
1866. S. Hannaford, `Wild Flowers of Tasmania,' p. 80:
«I...
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wattle-and-dab
a rough mode of architecture, verycommon in Australia at an early date. The phrase and itsmeaning ar...
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by fits and starts
At short and sudden intervals interruptedly.
As prayer is a duty of daily occurrence, the injunctio...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary.
Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
Where under the sun, says I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-super...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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back and forth
Backwards and forwards, applied to a person in walking, as, "He was walking back and forth." A commo...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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chinking and daubing
The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cut and dried
Ready made.
I am for John C. Calhoun for the presidency; and will not go for Mr. Van Buren, the man...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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hither and you
here and there, backwards and forwards. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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marry and shall
i. e. that I will. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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milt and melt
the soft roe of a fish. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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money and gold
silver and gold. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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peas and sport
See scadding of peas.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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rid and ridden
dispatch and dispatched : It rids well : it goes on fast. It will soon be ridden, i. e. got rid of. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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runches and runchballs
carlock, when dried and withered. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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saugh and sauf
sallow. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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snod and snog
neat, handsome : as, snogly gear'd, handsomely dressed. N. SNOG-MALT, smooth, with few combs.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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act and intention
Must be united in admiralty law.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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costs and damage
Demurrage is generally given against a captor for unjustifiable detention. Where English merchants p...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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cut and thrust
To give point with a sword after striking a slash.
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den and strond
A liberty for ships or vessels to run or come ashore. Edward I. granted this privilege to the barons...
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fast and loose
An uncertain and shuffling conduct.
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fifer and fidler
Two very important aids in eliciting exact discipline; for hoisting, warping, and heaving at the cap...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fore-and-aft
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
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fore-and-after
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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full and by
Sailing close-hauled on a wind; when a ship is as close as she will lie to the wind, without sufferi...
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ribs and trucks
Used figuratively for fragments.
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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...
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rouse and bit
The order to turn out of the hammocks.
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soak and send!
The order to pass wet swabs along.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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stock and fluke
The whole of anything.
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The Sailor's Word-Book