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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)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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London Wall
See Wall of London.
...
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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.)
...
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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 Court, Inn
North out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-L. Guide, 1758).
Site now occup...
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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...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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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(St.) Alphage London Wall
On the south side of London Wall at No. 13. In Cripplegate Ward Within.
The church stood originally...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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London Wall, Street
West from Old Broad Street to Cripplegate (P.O. Directory).
A street on the line of the old Wall of...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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London Wall Avenue
Out of London Wall at No. 31 (P.O. Directory).
First mention: L.C.C. List, 1901.
...
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London Wall Buildings
On the north side of London Wall, at Blomfield Street. In Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
Fir...
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Wall of London
Considerable difference of opinion exists as to the date when the walls that encircled the ancient C...
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Wall
·noun The side of a level or drift.
II. Wall ·noun The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
III...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Wall
Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from "unwalled villages" (Ezek. 38:11; Lev. 25:29-...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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wall
To walk or crawl up the wall; to be scored up at a public-nouse. Wall-eyed, having an eye with littl...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wall
for well, is a common vulgarism in the Northern States.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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wall
he lies by the wall ; spoken of a person dead but not buried. Norf. and Sun .
...
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wall
A bank of earth to restrain the current and overflowing of water. (See sea-bank.)
...
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White Horse Alley
1) South out of Holborn, east of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Stok...
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White Horse Court
1) East out of Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward, between Lillypot Lane and Oat Lane (Strype, 1720 an...
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White Horse Yard
1) West out of Coleman Street at No.15, in Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Lea...
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Black Horse Inn
1) On the west side of Water Lane, Whitefriars, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1...
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White Hart Inn
1) On the north side of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without, with a passage to 3 Leg Court (Str...
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White Swan Inn
1) In Seething Lane, 1636 (L. and P. Chas. I. I635~6, p.380). No other mention.
2) West out of West...
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London
·noun The capital city of England.
...
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London
The capital of the Empire and from early times an important centre of trade and commerce. On the nor...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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All Hallows, London Wall
On the north side of London Wall at No. 85 (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street Ward. Parish extends in...
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Angel Alley, London Wall
See Leathersellers' Buildings.
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(St.) Augustine by London Wall
See St. Augustine Papey.
...
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Ball Alley, London Wall
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
First mention: In Ward...
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Bear Alley, London Wall
Out of London Wall, in parish of All Hallows, London Wall (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Called in P.C. S...
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Conduit at London Wall
In London Wall by Moorgate opposite the northern end of Coleman Street, erected 1517 at the charges ...
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Horse
·noun ·see <<Footrope>>, ·adj.
II. Horse ·vi To get on horseback.
III. Horse ·adj A breastband for...
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Horse
Always referred to in the Bible in connection with warlike operations, except Isa. 28:28. The war-ho...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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horse
A foot-rope reaching from the opposite quarter of a yard to its arms or shoulders, and depending abo...
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Horse
The most striking feature in the biblical notices of the horse is the exclusive application of it to...
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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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Inn
·vt To get in; to in. ·see <<In>>, ·vt.
II. Inn ·vi To take lodging; to <<Lodge>>.
III. Inn ·vt To...
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Inn
In the modern sense, unknown in the East. The khans or caravanserais, which correspond to the Europe...
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Inn
The Hebrew word (malon) thus rendered literally signified "a lodging-place for the night." Inns, in ...
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White Hart Inn, Aldersgate
See The George, Aldersgate.
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White Hart Inn, Yard
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1848-51).
"White Hart Stables "...
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Red Lion Alley, London Wall
See Red Lion Court7.
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Three Tun Alley, London Wall
See Drapers' Buildings.
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Sea wall
·- A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
...
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Wall Street
·add. ·- A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending fro...
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Wall-eye
·noun The alewife;
— called also wall-eyed herring.
II. Wall-eye ·noun A California surf fish (Hol...
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Wall-eyed
·adj Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
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Wall-plat
·noun The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.
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Wall-sided
·adj Having sides nearly perpendicular;
— said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those ha...
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Wall Alley
West out of the Minories (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former names: Wall's Court" (O. and M. 1677-St...
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wall-knot
, or wale-knot.
A particular sort of large knot raised upon the end of a rope, by untwisting the s...
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wall-piece
A very heavy powerful musket, for use in fortified places.
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wall-sided
The sides of a ship continuing nearly perpendicular down to the surface of the water, like a wall. I...
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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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Black Horse and Hare Inn
South out of Hart Street, with a passage into Fell Street (Strype, ed. 1720 and 1755). In O. and M. ...
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Flying Horse Inn, Yard, Houndsditch
East out of Bishopsgate Street and north to Houndsditch, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677...
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White Bear Inn, Basinghall Street
See Bear Inn.
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London smoke
·add. ·- A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, ·etc., which red...
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London tuft
·add. ·- The Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus).
...
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London, Jack
(b. 1876)
American novelist. The Son of the Wolf (1900), The God of his Fathers, Children of the Fr...
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Little London
Tenement of Robert Cok with houses and gardens in the parish of All Hallows "atte walle" called "lit...
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London Bibliography
Many works on this subject have been produced from time to time, and valuable bibliographies are ava...
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London Bridge
Extends across the River Thames from Adelaide Place and King William Street to High Street, Southwar...
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London Court
In London Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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London House
On the west side of Aldersgate Street, adjoining Bartholomew Close west, in Aldersgate Without and F...
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London Houses
Roman tiles used in the walls of houses were 17 in. long, 11 in. wide and 11/2 in. thick. The draini...
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London Institution
On the north side of Finsbury Circus at No. 11 (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street Ward.
Founded 18...
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London Markets
See Cheapside, Cheap (west), Honey Lane Market, Fleet Market, Farringdon Market, Eastcheap, Billings...
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London Privileges
These were granted from time to time by the Royal Charters given to the City and were jealously guar...
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London Records
These are perhaps sufficiently indicated in the list of authorities set out at the commencement of t...
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London Sanctuaries
The privilege of sanctuary, or refuge, for those who were guilty of manslaughter, etc., was frequent...
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London Stone
A rounded block of stone set in a large stone case, in which is an oval opening through which it can...
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London Street
South out of Fenchurch Street at No. 59 and west to 74 Mark Lane (P.O. Directory). The northern port...
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London Streets
The following extract as to the rebuilding of the City after the Fire may be of interest :
To provi...
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London Workhouse
On the west side of Bishopsgate Street (Strype, 1720-Elmes, 1831).
"Crown Yard" in O. and M. 1677.
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london waggon
The tender which carried the impressed men from off the tower to the receiving-ship at the Nore.
...
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Horse Guards
·- A body of cavalry so called; ·esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furn...
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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...
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Horse-leech
Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are ...
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Horse Alley
1) Messuages in Horse Alley, Shoe Lane, part of the manor of Holbourne, 23 Eliz. (Proc. in Chanc. II...
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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 ...
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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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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.
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horse coser
A dealer in horses: vulgarly and corruptly pronounced HORSE COURSER. The verb TO COSE was used by th...
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horse godmother
A large masculine woman, a gentlemanlike kind of a lady.
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horse ladder
A piece of Wiltshire wit, which consists in sending some raw lad, or simpleton, to a neighbouring fa...
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religious horse
One much given to prayer, or apt to be down upon his knees.
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running horse
or NAG
A clap, or gleet.
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scarlet horse
A high red, hired or hack horse: a pun on the word HIRED.
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wooden horse
To fide the wooden horse was a military punishment formerly in use. This horse consisted of two or m...
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...
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fillet-horse
The horse employed in the shafts of the limbers.
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flemish horse
, is the outer short foot-rope for the man at the earing; the outer end is spliced round a thimble o...
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horse-cockle
See gawky
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hard-horse
A tyrannical officer.
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horse-artillery
A branch of field artillery specially equipped to manœuvre with cavalry, having lighter guns, and al...
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horse-buckets
Covered buckets for carrying spirits or water in.
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horse-buckle
The great whelk.
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horse-foot
A name of the Limulus polyphemus of the shores of America, where from its shape it is called the hor...
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horse-latitudes
A space between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade-winds, notorious for tedious ca...
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horse-mackerel
A large and coarse member of the Scomber family, remarkably greedy, and therefore easily taken, but ...
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horse-marine
An awkward lubberly person. One out of place.
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horse-mussel
See duck-mussel.
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horse-potatoes
The old word for yams.
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horse-power
A comparative estimate of the capacity of steam-engines, by assuming a certain average effective pre...
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horse-shoe
In old fortification, a low work of this plan sometimes thrown up in ditches.
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horse-tongue
A name applied to a kind of sole.
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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irish horse
Old salt beef: hence the sailor's address to his salt beef
"Salt horse, salt horse, what brought y...
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iron-horse
The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller.
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light-horse
A name formerly given to all mounted men who were not encumbered with armour.
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mainsheet-horse
A kind of iron dog fixed at the middle of a wooden beam, stretching across a craft's stern, from one...
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old horse
Tough salt-beef.
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race-horse
(Alca?) A duck of the South Seas; thus named, says Cook, for "the great swiftness with which they ru...
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sea-horse
A name for the walrus, Trichecus rosmarus. Also, the hippocampus (which see).
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traverse-horse
See jack-stays.
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water-horse
Cod-fish stacked up in a pile to drain, under the process of cure.
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Cream-white
·adj As white as cream.
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Snow-white
·adj White as snow; very white.
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Water-white
·noun A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and contain...
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White elephant
·add. ·- Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome posses...
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White fly
·add. ·- Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to s...
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White friar
·- A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. ·see ...
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White list
·add. ·- The official list of all transactions, published daily on white paper, divided into sales f...
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White mustard
·add. ·- A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pa...
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White person
·add. ·- A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256).
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White plague
·add. ·- Tuberculosis, ·esp. of the lungs.
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White slave
·add. ·- A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman fo...
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White slaver
·add. ·- A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White slaving
·add. ·- The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White-blaze
·noun ·see White-face.
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White-ear
·noun The <<Wheatear>>.
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White-eye
·noun Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops pal...
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White-face
·noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose;
— called also white-b...
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White-foot
·noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
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White-fronted
·adj Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
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White-heart
·noun A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
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White-hot
·adj White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
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White-limed
·adj Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
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White-livered
·adj Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
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White-pot
·noun A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, ·etc., baked in a pot.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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White-water
·noun A dangerous disease of sheep.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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White, Gilbert
(1720-1793)
Naturalist, b. at Selborne, Hants, and ed. along with the Wartons (q.v.) at their fathe...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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White Bear
In Abchurch Lane.
Destroyed in the Fire 1666.
Rebuilt as " Pontack's," for many years a famous tav...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Bull
Hostel so called in Westmythfeld, 1445 (Cal. L. Bk. K. p.310).
Not further identified.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Cross
In an Inquisition 3 Ed. I. mention is made of water coming down from Smethefeld del Barbican in the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The White Hart
1) Tenement called the "Sygne de le Whyte Harte " in Westchepe in parish of St. Mary Colchurch, betw...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The White Harte
1) A messuage so called lying in St. Nicholas Fleshambles in parish of Christchurch, 1568 (Lond. I. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Street
West out of Moorfields, at No.39, to Moor Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
First...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The White Swan
A messuage called the White Swan. In Great Eastcheap in parish of St. Leonard upon Fish street hill,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Yard
Out of Lamb Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I ii 108-Boyle, 1799).
The site i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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lily white
A chimney-sweeper.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white feather
He has a white feather; he is a coward; an allusion to a game cock, where having a white leather is ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white-livered
Cowardly, malicious.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white lie
A harmless lie, one not told with a malicious intent, a lie told to reconcile people at variance.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white serjeant
A man fetched from the tavern or ale-house by his wife, is said to be arrested by the white serjeant...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white swelling
A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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maori, white
New Zealand miners' name for a stone. See quotation.
1883. `A Citizen,' `Illustrated Guide to Duned...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white-bream
See silver-bream
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris