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White Horse Yard, Old Broad Street
See Flying Horse Yard.
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Old Broad Street
South from London Wall and Wormwood Street to No.53 Threadneedle Street (P.O. Directory). In Broad S...
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White Horse Court
1) East out of Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward, between Lillypot Lane and Oat Lane (Strype, 1720 an...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Adam Court, Old Broad Street
See Adam's Court.
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New Court, Old Broad Street
South-east out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward, at No.7 (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831).
Rebui...
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old horse
Tough salt-beef.
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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-horse
A name of the Raia fullonica. (See also white caps.)
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Broad Street
See Old Broad Street, New Broad Street, Little Broad Street.
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Broad Court
See St. James' Place.
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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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White Horse Court, Inn
North out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-L. Guide, 1758).
Site now occup...
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French Court, Broad Street
See Hercules' Passage.
...
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New Broad Street Court
On the east side of Broad Street Buildings. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (O.S.1880).
The site is now...
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White Horse Court, Royal Mint Street
North out of Royal Mint Street in the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel (P.C. 1732-O.S. 25 in. 1880). F...
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Broad
·superl Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
II. Broad ·superl Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
III. B...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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White Horse Alley
1) South out of Holborn, east of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Stok...
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White Horse Inn
1) On the east side of Wood Street at No.30, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Rocque, 1746-Lockie, 1816)....
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White Horse Yard
1) West out of Coleman Street at No.15, in Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Lea...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Broad Street Avenue
West out of New Broad Street, at No. 17, to Blomfield Street (P.O. Directory).
First mention: L.C.C...
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Broad Street Buildings
South out of Liverpool Street, at Nos. 2, 5, and 11 (P.O. Directory).
Formerly these buildings form...
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Broad Street Chambers
At 37 Old Broad Street, opposite Winchester Street, by the Excise Office (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831)....
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Broad Street Mews
West out of New Broad Street at its junction with Broad Street Buildings. In Bishopsgate Ward Withou...
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Broad Street Place
West out of Blomfield Street (P.O. Directory), forming part of East Street.
First mention: Lockie, ...
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Broad Street Station
On the north side of Liverpool Street, North London Railway Terminus (P.O. Directory). On the wester...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Broad Street Ward
One of the twenty-six wards of the City, bounded north and east by Bishopsgate Ward, north and west ...
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Little Broad Street
South from Throgmorton Street to Threadneedle Street. In Broad Street Ward (Strype, 1720-Lond. Guide...
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New Broad Street
North out of Old Broad Street to Liverpool Street (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Without. Als...
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Old Bethlem, Street
West out of Bishopsgate Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without
"Old Bethlehem" (Hatton, 1708). "Old Be...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Fish Street
West from Queen Victoria Street to Knightrider Street, in Bread Street and Queenhithe Wards (O.S.188...
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Horse
·noun ·see <<Footrope>>, ·adj.
II. Horse ·vi To get on horseback.
III. Horse ·adj A breastband for...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Horse
Always referred to in the Bible in connection with warlike operations, except Isa. 28:28. The war-ho...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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horse
A foot-rope reaching from the opposite quarter of a yard to its arms or shoulders, and depending abo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Horse
The most striking feature in the biblical notices of the horse is the exclusive application of it to...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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White Hart Street
East out of Warwick Lane, at No.25, to Paternoster Square (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward.
...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Street, Houndsditch
See Cutler Street.
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Old
·noun Open country.
II. Old ·superl More than enough; abundant.
III. Old ·superl Used colloquially...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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old
1) Crafty; cunning. Used in vulgar language. When a person attempts to get the advantage of another,...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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old
great ; here has been old doings, here has been great doings. C.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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White Hart Court, Leadenhall Street
See White Hart Alley.
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White Hart Court, Middlesex Street
Near Inkhorn Court, Petticoat Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 28).
Not named in t...
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White Rose Court, Coleman Street
See Masons' Avenue.
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Black Horse Court
1) West out of Aldersgate Street in Aldersgate Ward Without, south of Long Lane (Rocque, 1746-Boyle,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Court
1) North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Horse Shoe Court
North out of Ludgate Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without, west of Old Bailey (Bacon, 1912).
First ment...
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Old Bedlam Court
In Old Bethlehem (Dodsley, 1761).
No further reference.
Not named in the maps.
...
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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...
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White Cock Court
East out of Bread Street, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
Site has been rebuilt...
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White Hall Court
East from the Tower precinct to St. Katherine's lane (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1811).
Removed for the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hart Court
1) North out of Long Lane, West Smithfield, to the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without (Hor...
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White Head Court
In Duke's Place (W. Stow, 1722-P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps.
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White Hind Court
1) See Bishopsgate Buildings.
2) West out of Coleman Street, in Coleman Street Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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White Lion Court
1) South out of Great Tower Street, east of Beer Lane (P.O. Directory). In Tower Ward.
Earliest men...
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White Lyon Court
1) East out of Little Bell Alley, in Broad Street Ward (P.C. 1732-Elmes, 1831).
The site is now occ...
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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 Swan Court
In Newgate Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps.
Name derived from the sign...
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White Horse Alley, Aldgate High Street
See Black Horse Yard, Aldgate High Street.
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White Hart, White Hart Court
West out of Bishopsgate, at No, 119, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
The date 1480 wa...
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White Horse Alley, Inn
1) North out of Barbican, in Aldersgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
See White Horse...
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White Horse Inn, Barbican
See White Horse Alley.
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White Horse Inn, Yard
On the south side of Fore Street, east of Cripplegate. In Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-B...
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White Horse Yard, Inn
South out of London Wall, in Broad Street Ward, opposite Bethlehem Hospital (O. and M. 1677-Lockie, ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Broad Street Ward School
See Coleman Street Ward School.
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White Bear Court, Aldgate High Street
See White Bear Alley.
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Bagnio Court Street
See Roman Bath Street.
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Fleet Street Court
In Fleet Street (Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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Broad Church
·- A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respec...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Broad gauge
·- A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half...
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Broad seal
·- The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.
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Broad-brimmed
·adj Having a broad brim.
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Broad-horned
·adj Having horns spreading widely.
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Broad-leafed
·adj Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.
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Broad-leaved
·adj ·Alt. of Broad-leafed.
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Broad Alley
In parish of St. Margaret Lothbury, mentioned in will of Sir Henry Kebyll, 1514. Site now covered by...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Broad Walk
In the Tower precincts (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Also called "Northumberland Place" in P.C. Survey.
...
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broad-leaf
n.
a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea.
1879. W. N. Blair, `Bu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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broad arrow
The royal mark for government stores of every description. To obliterate, deface, or remove this mar...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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broad axe
Formerly a warlike instrument; also for beheading; specially applied to the axe of carpenters for ma...
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broad cloth
Square sails.
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broad pennant
A swallow-tailed piece of buntin at the mast-head of a man-of-war; the distinctive mark of a commodo...
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broad r.
See broad arrow.
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Horse-shoe Bridge Street
East out of Tower Royal to the church of St. John Walbrook (S. 230).
First mention: A lane leading ...
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(St.) Nicholas Old Fish Street
See St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, St. Nicholas Distaff Lane, St. Nicholas New Fish Street, St. Nicholas W...
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Old Fish Street Hill
South out of Old Fish Street to Upper Thames Street, in Queenhithe Ward (Horwood, 1799-L.C.C. List, ...
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The Swan, Old Fish Street
In Olde Fish Street, 18 and 27 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 82).
Seems to have been near Distaff Lane,...
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White Alley, Coleman Street
See White's Alley.
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Black Horse Court, Minories
West out of the Minories about the middle. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
In Stryp...
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Flying Horse Court, Yard
North out of Fleet Street to Serjeants Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799)....
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Little Black Horse Court
West out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward (P.C 1732-Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
...
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Baker's Court, Old Bethlem
Out of Old Bethlem, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
Qy. = Baker's ...
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Ball Court, Old Bailey
East out of Old Bailey in Farringdon Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : " Bell ...
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Bevis Court, Old Jewry
See Bevis Court, Basinghall Street, below.
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Green Court, Old Jewry
See Green Dragon Court.
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Windmill Court, Old Jewry
East out of Old Jewry, in Coleman Street Ward (Strype, 1720).
First mention: "The Windmill," 1522 (...
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Black and White Court
South out of Fleet Lane to Belle Savage Inn and the Old Bailey (Leake, 1666-Elmes, 1831).
Strype de...
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Great White Bear Court
North out of Thames Street in Blackfriars, west of Addle Hill, in Castle Baynard Ward (P.C. 1732).
...
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Little White Bear Court
North out of Thames Street, in the precinct of Blackfriars (P. C. 1732-Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in...
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White Lion Court, Cornhill
North out of Coruhill at No.64 (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill Ward.
First mention: W. Stow, 1722.
F...
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White Horse Inn, London Wall
See White Horse Yard.
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White Horse Yard, Seething Lane
East out of Seething Lane, south of the Navy Office (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former name: "Carr ...
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Street
·adj Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or vi...
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Street
The street called "Straight" at Damascus (Acts 9:11) is "a long broad street, running from east to w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Street
The streets of a modern Oriental town present a great contrast to those with which we are familiar, ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Five Foot Court, Old Fish Street Hill
See Five Foot Lane.
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White Bear Alley, Court, Aldgate High Street
See Saville Buildings.
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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street.
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Horse Guards
·- A body of cavalry so called; ·esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furn...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Horse power
·- The power which a horse exerts.
II. Horse power ·- A machine worked by a horse, for driving othe...
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Horse-chestnut
·noun The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed ...
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Horse-drench
·noun A dose of physic for a horse.
II. Horse-drench ·noun The appliance by which the dose is admin...
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Horse-jockey
·noun A trainer and dealer in horses.
II. Horse-jockey ·noun A professional rider and trainer of ra...
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Horse-leech
·noun A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
II. Horse-leech ·noun A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis...
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Horse-leechery
·noun The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
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Horse-litter
·noun A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
...
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Horse-radish
·noun A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pun...
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One-horse
·adj Second-rate; inferior; small.
II. One-horse ·adj Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse...
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Rear-horse
·noun A <<Mantis>>.
...
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Rocking-horse
·noun The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
...
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Sea horse
·- The <<Walrus>>.
II. Sea horse ·- Any fish of the genus Hippocampus.
III. Sea horse ·- A fabulou...
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Shire horse
·add. ·- One of an English breed of heavy draft horses believed to be descended largely from the hor...
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Stalking-horse
·noun Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project; a mask; a pretense.
II. Stalking-horse ·no...
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Stone-horse
·noun <<Stallion>>.
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Stud-horse
·noun A stallion, ·esp. one kept for breeding.
...
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Horse-gate
A gate in the wall of Jerusalem, at the west end of the bridge, leading from Zion to the temple (Neh...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Horse-leech
Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Horse Alley
1) Messuages in Horse Alley, Shoe Lane, part of the manor of Holbourne, 23 Eliz. (Proc. in Chanc. II...
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The Horse Head
A capital messuage or tenement so called in Thames Street given to St. Dunstan's Church (Strype, ed....
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The Horse Mill
Tenement called "le Horsmylle" in Graschirchstrete in parish of St. Peter upon Cornhulle granted to ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Horse Shoe
1) On the north side of Great Eastcheap at Nos. 20-22, near the Boar's Head (q.v.), in the parish of...
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Horse Yard
See Evans' Court, Basinghall Street.
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banks's horse
A horse famous for playing tricks, the property of one Banks. It is mentioned in Sir Walter Raleigh'...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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butcher's horse
That must have been a butcher's horse, by his carrying a calf so well; a vulgar joke on an awkward r...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead horse
To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hobby horse
A man's favourite amusement, or study, is called his hobby horse. It also means a particular kind of...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse buss
A kiss with a loud smack; also a bite.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse coser
A dealer in horses: vulgarly and corruptly pronounced HORSE COURSER. The verb TO COSE was used by th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse godmother
A large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of a lady.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse ladder
A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring fa...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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religious horse
One much given to prayer, or apt to be down upon his knees.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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running horse
or NAG
A clap, or gleet.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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scarlet horse
A high red, hired or hack horse: a pun on the word HIRED.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wooden horse
To fide the wooden horse was a military punishment formerly in use. This horse consisted of two or m...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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horse-mackerel
n.
The name is applied inSydney to the fish Auxis ramsayi, Castln., family Scombridae. In New Zeala...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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stock-horse
n.
horse accustomed to go aftercattle used in mustering and cutting-out (q.v.).
1874. W. H. L. Ran...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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clothes-horse
A frame-work for hanging clothes on to dry after they have been washed and ironed, in the form of an...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead horse
Work for which one has been paid before it is performed. When a workman, on Saturday night, includes...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-colt
"We frequently see in advertisements these terms, horse-colt, mare-colt, &c. A horse-colt is simply ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-foot
(Genus, polyphemus. Lamarck.) The common name of a crustacea, found in our waters from Massachusetts...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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wheel-horse
An intimate friend; one's right hand man. Western.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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horse-block
, HORSE-STONE, stone to mount on horseback. Lane.
...
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horse-knops
heads of knapweed. N.
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thill-horse
the shaft-horse. N.
...
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dead-horse
A term applied by seamen to labour which has been paid for in advance. When they commence earning mo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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fillet-horse
The horse employed in the shafts of the limbers.
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flemish horse
, is the outer short foot-rope for the man at the earing; the outer end is spliced round a thimble o...
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horse-cockle
See gawky
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hard-horse
A tyrannical officer.
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horse-artillery
A branch of field artillery specially equipped to manœuvre with cavalry, having lighter guns, and al...
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horse-buckets
Covered buckets for carrying spirits or water in.
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horse-buckle
The great whelk.
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horse-foot
A name of the Limulus polyphemus of the shores of America, where from its shape it is called the hor...
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horse-latitudes
A space between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade-winds, notorious for tedious ca...
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horse-mackerel
A large and coarse member of the Scomber family, remarkably greedy, and therefore easily taken, but ...
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horse-marine
An awkward lubberly person. One out of place.
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horse-mussel
See duck-mussel.
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horse-potatoes
The old word for yams.
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horse-power
A comparative estimate of the capacity of steam-engines, by assuming a certain average effective pre...
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horse-shoe
In old fortification, a low work of this plan sometimes thrown up in ditches.
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horse-tongue
A name applied to a kind of sole.
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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irish horse
Old salt beef: hence the sailor's address to his salt beef
"Salt horse, salt horse, what brought y...
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iron-horse
The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller.
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light-horse
A name formerly given to all mounted men who were not encumbered with armour.
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mainsheet-horse
A kind of iron dog fixed at the middle of a wooden beam, stretching across a craft's stern, from one...
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race-horse
(Alca?) A duck of the South Seas; thus named, says Cook, for "the great swiftness with which they ru...
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sea-horse
A name for the walrus, Trichecus rosmarus. Also, the hippocampus (which see).
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traverse-horse
See jack-stays.
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water-horse
Cod-fish stacked up in a pile to drain, under the process of cure.
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Old Dominion
·add. ·- Virginia;
— a name of uncertain origin, perh. from the old designation of the colony as "t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Old-fashioned
·adj Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Old-gentlemanly
·adj Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one.
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Old-maidish
·adj Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.
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Old-maidism
·noun The condition or characteristics of an old maid.
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Old-womanish
·adj Like an old woman; anile.
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Old gate
One of the gates in the north wall of Jerusalem, so called because built by the Jebusites (Neh. 3:6;...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The Old Bailey
South from Newgate Street, at No.2, to 46 Ludgate Hill (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Bethlem
See Old Bethlehem Hospital.
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Old Change
South out of Cheapside, at No.10, to Knightrider Street (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Dog
See Queen's Arms.
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Old Exchange
See Old Change.
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Old Jewry
North out of Poultry, at No.43, to Gresham Street (P.O. Directory). In Cheap Ward and Coleman Street...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Lane
See Viterilane.
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Old Ludgate
On the west side of Bishopsgate, west of the London Workhouse, on the south side of Half Moon Street...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Old Piscaria
See Old Fish Street.
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Old Place
Messuage or great Place commonly called the "Old Place" situate at the east head of the parish churc...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.