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Sun
·noun ·see <<Sunn>>.
II. Sun ·noun The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
III. Sun ·noun...
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Sun
(Heb. shemesh), first mentioned along with the moon as the two great luminaries of heaven (Gen. 1:14...
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sun
To have been in the sun; said of one that is drunk.
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sun
The central body of our planetary system, and the source of light and heat; it is 850,000 miles in d...
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Sun
In the history of "greater light," of the creation the sun is described as "greater light," in contr...
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Office
·vt To perform, as the duties of an office; to <<Discharge>>.
II. Office ·noun Any service other th...
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office
To give the office; to give information, or make signs to the officers to take a thief.
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Fire
·vt To drive by fire.
II. Fire ·vt To <<Cauterize>>.
III. Fire ·vi To be irritated or inflamed wit...
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Fire
1) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on t...
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to fire
To fling with the hand, as a stone or other missile.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fire!
The order to put the match to the priming, or pull the trigger of a cannon or other fire-arm so as t...
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Fire
is represented as the symbol of Jehovah's presence and the instrument of his power, in the way eithe...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Hand in Hand Fire Office
At No. 1 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, on the east side (Elmes, 1831).
Est. 1696 in Angel Court, Snow...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Midnight sun
·add. ·- The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
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Sun star
·- ·see Sun star, under <<Sun>>.
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Sun-burner
·noun A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.
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Sun-dried
·adj Dried by the heat of the sun.
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Sun-struck
·adj Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.
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Sun Alley
1) East out of Golden Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without, near the northern boundary of the Ward, lea...
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Sun Court
1) North out of Little Swan Alley. In Coleman Street Ward (Horwood, I79~O.S. 1848-51).
Rebuilt abou...
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Sun Passage
In Milk Street.
Or Mitre Court Passage (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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Sun Square
North out of Sun Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831).
Not named in the m...
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Sun Street
West out of Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.C. 1732-O.S. 1880).
The site seems to have ...
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Sun Tavern
1) The Sonn Taverne, in Billingsgate Ward, 1491-2 (Records of St. Mary at Hill, p.174).
In the pari...
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Sun Yard
1) West out of Bishopsgate Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Within and Broad Street Ward (Hatton, 1708-Bo...
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sun-bird
n.
a common name of various birds.Applied in Australia to Cinnyris frenata, Mull.
1869. J. Gould, ...
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sun-cate
a dainty. Suff.
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mean sun
See time, mean.
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sun-fish
The Orthagoriscus mola, a whimsical-looking creature, like the head of a large fish severed from its...
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sun-star
The Solaster papposus, one of the largest and handsomest of our radiated star-fishes.
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Booking office
·- An office where passage tickets are sold.
II. Booking office ·- An office where passengers, bagg...
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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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Office wire
·add. ·- Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, ·etc.
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Post office
·noun ·see under 4th Post.
...
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Alienation Office
On the eastern side of King's Bench Walk in the Inner Temple (Horwood, 1799). An office under the Lo...
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Ballast Office
See Old Trinity House.
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Exchequer Office
On the west side of Ivy Lane (Leake, 1666).
After the Fire it seems to have been kept in the Temple...
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Excise Office
In Bartholomew Lane prior to 1666, when it was destroyed in the Great Fire. It was then removed to B...
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Faculty Office
At the east corner of Paul's Bakehouse next to Little Carter lane is the Faculty Office, for the gra...
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Fen Office
In Tanfield Court, Temple, at No. 3 on the south side (Lockie, 1810 and 1816).
No further reference...
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Jewel Office
In the Tower of London (q.v.).
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Navy Office
On the south side of Crutched Friars and east of Seething Lane. In Tower and Aldgate Wards (Strype, ...
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Pay Office
On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...
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Prerogative Office
Now in Somerset House.
In O. and M. at the south end of Prerogative Court leading out of St. Paul's...
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Record Office
On the east side of Chancery Lane (P.O. Directory).
Erected 1856-70 as a depository for the Public ...
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Rolls' Office
On the east side of Chancery Lane on part of the site now occupied by the Record Office (O.S. 1880)....
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Secondary's Office
In the Inner Temple (Horwood 1799).
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Transport Office
See Plough Yard, Lombard Street, Seething Lane.
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Victualling Office
On Tower Hill, near King Street (Dodsley, 1761).
First mention: 1665 (H. MSS. Com. 15th Rep. II. 16...
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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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navy office
The Fleet prison. Commander of the Fleet; the warden of the Fleet prison.
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victualling office
The stomach.
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loan office
A public office in which loans of money are negotiated for the public, or in which the accounts of l...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hydrographical office
A department of the admiralty where the labours of the marine surveyors of the Royal Navy are collec...
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transport office
Formerly a department under government directed by commissioners, who chartered vessels and appointe...
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Anthony's Fire
·- ·see Saint Anthony's Fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Ash-fire
·noun A low fire used in chemical operations.
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Back fire
·add. ·- A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that whe...
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Back-fire
·add. ·vi To have or experience a back fire or back fires;
— said of an internal-combustion engine....
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Elmo's fire
·- ·see <<Corposant>>; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Fire beetle
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...
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Fire-fanged
·adj Injured as by fire; burned;
— said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy ...
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Fire-new
·adj Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
...
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Fire-set
·noun A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
...
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Knobbling fire
·- A bloomery fire. ·see <<Bloomery>>.
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Pin-fire
·add. ·adj Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.
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Rapid-fire
·add. ·adj ·Alt. of Rapid-firing.
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Rim-fire
·add. ·adj Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-...
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fire priggers
Villains who rob at fires under pretence of assisting in removing the goods.
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fire ship
A wench who has the venereal disease.
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fire shovel
He or she when young, was fed with a fire shovel; a saying of persons with wide mouths.
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spit fire
A violent, pettish, or passionate person.
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bush-fire
n.
forests and grass on fire in hotsummers.
1868. C. Dilke, `Greater Britain,' vol. ii. part iii. ...
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fire-stick
n.
name given to thelighted stick which the Australian natives frequently carryabout, when moving f...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fire-tree
n.
a tree of New Zealand; anothername for Pohutukawa (q.v.). For QueenslandFire-tree, see Tulip-tre...
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to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors.
A well-known ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fire-cracker
A little paper cylinder filled with powder or combustible matter, imported from China. It receives i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fire-new
New from the forge; brand-new.--Johnson. This old and nearly obsolete expression is sometimes used b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cold fire
a fire laid ready for lighting. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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shel fire
electric sparks, often seen on clothes at night. Kent.
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fire-elding
The word Fire is redundant; for Elding itself means fuel.
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fire-flaughts
lightning, or the northern lights. N.
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fire-potter
a poker. Lane.
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concentrated fire
The bringing the whole or several guns to bear on a single point.
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curved fire
A name coming into use with the increasing application of the fire of heavy and elongated shells to ...
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direct fire
One of the five varieties into which artillerists usually divide horizontal fire (which see).
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enfilade fire
Is that which sweeps a line of works or men from one end to the other; it is on land nearly the equi...
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fire-flaire
See fiery-flaw
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fire-arms
Every description of arms that discharge missiles by gunpowder, from the heaviest cannon to a pistol...
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fire-arrows
Missiles in olden times carrying combustibles; much used in the sea-fights of the middle ages.
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fire-away
Go on with your remarks.
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fire-ball
In meteorology, a beautiful phenomenon seen at times, the origin of which is as yet imperfectly acco...
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fire-balls
Are used for destroying vessels run aground, and firing buildings. They are made of a composition of...
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fire-bare
An old term from the Anglo-Saxon for beacon.
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fire-bars
The range fronting a steam-boiler.
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fire-bill
The distribution of the officers and crew in case of the alarm of fire, a calamity requiring judicio...
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fire-booms
Long spars swung out from a ship's side to prevent the approach of fire-ships, fire-stages, or vesse...
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fire-box
A space crossing the whole front of the boiler over the furnace doors, opposite the smoke-box.
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fire-buckets
Canvas, leather, or wood buckets for quarters, each fitted with a sinnet laniard of regulated length...
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fire-door
An access to the fire-place of an engine.
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fire-drake
A meteor, or the Corpo Santo. Also, a peculiar fire-work, which Shakspeare in Henry VIII. thus menti...
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fire-eater
One notoriously fond of being in action; much humbled by iron-clads.
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fire-flaughts
The aurora borealis, or northern lights.
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fire-hearth
The security base of the galley-range and all its conveniences.
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fire-hoops
A combustible invented by the knights of Malta to throw among their besiegers, and afterwards used i...
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fire-lock
Formerly the common name for a musket; the fire-arm carried by a foot-soldier, marine, or small-arm ...
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fire-rafts
Timber constructions bearing combustible matters, used by the Chinese to destroy an enemy's vessel.
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fire-rails
See rails.
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fire-roll
A peculiar beat of the drum to order people to their stations on an alarm of fire. Summons to quarte...
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fire-screens
Pieces of fear-nought, a thick woollen felt put round the hatchways in action.
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fire-ship
A vessel filled with combustible materials, and fitted with grappling-irons, to hook and set fire to...
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fire-swab
The bunch of rope-yarns sometimes secured to the tompion, saturated with water to cool the gun in ac...
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fire-works
See pyrotechny.
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galling-fire
A sustained discharge of cannon, or small arms, which by its execution greatly annoys the enemy.
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grazing-fire
That which sweeps close to the surface it defends.
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gun-fire
The morning or evening guns, familiarly termed "the admiral falling down the hatchway."
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hang-fire
When the priming burns without igniting the cartridge, or the charge does not rapidly ignite after p...
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horizontal fire
From artillery, is that in which the piece is laid either direct on the object, or with but small el...
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plunging fire
A pitching discharge of shot from a higher level, at such an angle that the shot do not ricochet.
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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...
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vertical fire
In artillery, that directed upward at such an angle as that it will fall vertically, or nearly so, t...
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Sun Alley, Court
North-west out of Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-L. Guide, 1758).
Site now ...
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Sun Court, Cornhill
North out of Cornhill at No.67, in Cornhill Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: W. Stow, 1722.
F...
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Sun Street Passage
South out of Pindar Street to Broad Street Buildings, in Bishops-gate Ward Without (P.O. Directory)....
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Three Sun Court
See Sumner Court.
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against the sun
Coiling a rope in the direction from the right hand towards the left the contrary of with the sun. T...
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with the sun
Ropes coiled from the left hand towards the right; but where the sun passes the meridian north of th...
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Canada Company's Office
At No. 13 St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate. Company established 1826, in aid of the Canadian Colonies ...
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City Police Office
On the West side of Old Jewry at No. 26 (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street Ward.
First mention: "P...
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Coal Meters' Office
See Wilson's Yard.
The coal-meters were 15 in number, and were officers appointed to inspect the ju...
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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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General Post Office
On the west side of King Edward Street, in Farringdon Ward Within. The chief office in place of the ...
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George Coach Office
On the west side of Old Bailey, in Farringdon Ward Without (Lockie, 1810).
Not named in the maps.
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Herald's College, Office
See College of Arms.
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King's Bench Office
At the southern end of King's Bench Walk, Temple (Strype, 1720, Horwood, 1799).
See King's Bench Wa...
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London Insurance Office
On the south side of Cornhill in Ball Court and Birchin Lane (Rocque, 1746-Strype, 1755, I. p. 474)....
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Old Navy Office
See Navy Office.
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Old Victualling Office
See Victualling Office.
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Palace Court Office
In Clifford's Inn, near Fetter Lane (Lockie, 1816). Not named in the maps.
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Post Office Court
South out of Lombard Street at No. io adjoining the Post Office (P.O. Directory). In Langbourn Ward....
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Queen's Office Alley
In Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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Six Clerks' Office
On the west side of Chancery Lane, south of Carey Street, outside the City boundary (O. and M. 1677)...
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Times' Printing Office
On the north side of Printing House Square (q.v.).
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Wine Office Court
North out of Fleet Street, at No.145, to King's Head Court, Shoe Lane, which is now also called Wine...
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jack in office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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Rapid-fire mount
·add. ·- A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitt...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flame of fire
Is the chosen symbol of the holiness of God (Ex. 3:2; Rev. 2:18), as indicating "the intense, all-co...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fire Ball Alley
See Partridge Court.
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Fire Ball court
East out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (25 Eliz. 1583) (Lond. Inq. p.m. III. p. 64) to O.S. 25 i...
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Fire Ball Court
Near First (Aldermanbury) Postern, London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the map...
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Fire of London
In 1666, from September 2nd to 6th.
Commenced at the house of a baker in Pudding Lane, near London ...
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to fire a slug
To drink a dram.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hell fire dick
The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...
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elmo's fire, st.
See compasant.
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fire, loss by
Is within the policy of insurance, whether it be by accident, or by the fault of the master or marin...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fire-hearth-carline
The timber let in under the beams on which the fire-hearth stands, with pillars underneath, and choc...
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repeating fire-arm
One by which a number of charges, previously inserted, may be fired off in rapid succession, or afte...
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Sun Alley, King Street
See Prudent Passage.
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Sun Court, Birchin Lane
See Bengal Court.
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shoot the sun, to
To take its meridional altitude; literally aiming at the reflected sun through the telescope of the ...
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spots on the sun
See maculæ.
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Eclipse Of The Sun
No historical notice of an eclipse occurs in the Bible, but there are passages in the prophets which...
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Kingly office of Christ
One of the three special relations in which Christ stands to his people. Christ's office as mediator...
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Green Dragon Coach Office
On the south side of Fleet Street at No. 56, east of Serjeants' Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (Loc...
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Insurance Office, Birchin Lane
See London Insurance Office.
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King's Arms Coach Office
West out of Bishopsgate Street at 106, north of Thread-needle Street (Lockie, 1810-1816).
Not named...
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Old General Post Office
On the east side of St. Martin le Grand (Street), between that street and Foster Lane.
Erected 1825...
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Post Office, Lombard Street
On the south side of Lombard Street at No. l0 east of St. Mary Woolnoth (P.O. Directory). In Langbou...
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Six Penny Receivers' Office
On Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
Sixpence a month paid in by all seamen for the benefit of Greenwich ...
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jack in an office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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Burnt in the Fire 1666.
Not further identified.
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false fire, blue flames
A composition of combustibles filled into a wooden tube, which, upon being set fire to, burns with a...
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Sun Court, Aldgate High Street
North out of Aldgate High Street at No. 20. In Portsoken Ward (P.C. 1732-Collingridge, 1908).
Forme...
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Sun Court, Upper East Smithfield
North out of Upper East Smithfield at No.20 (Lockie, 1810-Bacon's map, 1912).
Other names: "Sun Yar...
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sun and moon in distance
When the angle between those bodies admits of measurement for lunars (about 130°).
...
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City Union Relief Registration Office
On the western side of Bartholomew Close, at No. 61, south of the Church of St. Bartholomew the Grea...
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King and Key Coach Office
On the north side of Fleet Street at 142, in Farringdon Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-1816).
Not named...
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New River Office and Yard
Between Pigs Quay and Dorset Wharf on the Thames, at the southern end of Dorset Street (Horwood, 179...
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Phoenix Assurance Co., Fire Offlce
On the south side of Lombard Street at the northeast corner of Abchurch Lane at No.19 (P.O. Director...
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to fire into the wrong flock
is a metaphorical expression used at the West, denoting that one has mistaken his object, as when a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Great Eastern Railway Goods' Receiving Office
On the west side of Laurence Lane at No. 23, in Cheap Ward, on the western boundary of the ward (P.O...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to have one's fat in the fire
is to have one's plans frustrated. A vulgar expression borrowed from the vocabulary of the kitchen.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Sun and Trumpet Alley, Aldgate High Street
See Sun Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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London County and Westminster Bank, Head Office
On the north side of Lothbury at No. 41 (P.O. Directory).
First mention: O.S. 1875.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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National Debt and Government Life Annuity Office
On the east side of Old Jewry at No.19 (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street Ward.
First mention: O.S...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Pewter Platter Alley, Pewter Platter Coach Office
In Gracechurch Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Lockie, 1816).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.