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Wool
·noun Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. II. Wool ·noun A sort of pubescence, or...

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Wool
One of the first material used for making woven cloth (Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; 19:19). The first-fru...

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Wool
was an article of the highest value among the Jews, as the staple material for the manufacture of cl...

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Exchange
·noun The thing given or received in return; ·esp., a publication exchanged for another. II. Exchan...

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exchange
A term in the mercantile world, to denote the bills by which remittances are made from one country t...

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Abb wool
·- ·see <<Abb>>. ...

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Wool-dyed
·adj Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed; ingrain. ...

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Wool-hall
·noun A trade market in the woolen districts. ...

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Wool Quay
At the south end of Water Lane, east of that lane (S. 44). Earliest mention: "Wolkaye," ".Wolkey," ...

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lamb's wool
Apples roasted and put into strong ale. ...

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white wool
Geneva. ...

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wool gathering
Your wits are gone a woolgathering; saying to an absent man, one in a reverie, or absorbed in though...

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bulls-wool
n. colloquial name for the innerportion of the covering of the Stringybark-tree (q.v.).This is a dr...

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wool-man
n. aboriginal mispronunciation of old man (q.v.). 1830. Robert Dawson, `The Present State of Austr...

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wool-shed
n. the principal building ofa station, at which the shearing and wool-packing is done.Often called ...

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wool-packs
In meteorology, light clouds in a blue sky. ...

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Exchange editor
·add. ·- An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication....

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Telephone exchange
·add. ·- A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation. ...

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Baltic Exchange
On the east side of St. Mary Axe at Nos. 24-28 (P.O. Directory). Former name : " Jeffrey's Square "...

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Clothes' Exchange
On the east side of Houndsditch, north and south of Cutler Street. In Portsoken Ward (L.C.C. List of...

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Coal Exchange
On the north side of Lower Thames Street at No. 96, and at the south-east corner of St. Mary Hill (P...

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Corn Exchange
East out of Mark Lane. Old Corn Exchange at No. 52 and the New Corn Exchange further north (P.O. Dir...

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Exchange Alley
See Change Alley. ...

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Exchange Buildings
1) See Royal Exchange Buildings. 2) South out of Cutler Street. In Portsoken Ward (L.C.C. List of S...

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Exchange Chambers
On the east side of St. Mary Axe at Nos. 24-28 (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward. Formerly Jeffrey'...

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Old Exchange
See Old Change. ...

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Royal Exchange
Between Cornhill South and Threadneedle Street north, in Broad Street and Cornhill Wards (P.O. Direc...

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Stock Exchange
Between Throgmorton Street north and Threadneedle Street south, at No.23 Throgmorton Street (P.O. Di...

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New Wool Quay
Appointed a place for lading and discharging goods, Act of Parliament, 1559 (quoted by Strype, Ed. 1...

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Old Wool Quay
Messuage and wharf called the Olde Wollekey in parish of All Hallows Barking, 1518-19, 5 H. VIII. 14...

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lamb's-wool sky
A collection of white orbicular masses of cloud. ...

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London Corn Exchange
See Corn Exchange. ...

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Royal Exchange Avenue
West out of Finch Lane, at No.21, to Royal Exchange Buildings. In Broad Street Ward (P.O. Directory)...

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Royal Exchange Buildings
South out of Threadneedle Street, at No. 1, to 82 Corn-hill (P.O. Directory), on the east side of th...

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bill of exchange
A means of remitting money from one country to another. The receiver must present it for acceptance ...

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dyed in the wool
Ingrained; thorough. The Democrats, on the authority of Mr. Cameron's letter, are beginning to clai...

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(St.) Bartholomew by the Exchange
At the south-east corner of Bartholomew Lane. In Broad Street Ward. The parish is in Broad Street an...

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Custom House and Wool Quays
South out of Lower Thames Street, east of the Custom House (P.O. Directory). First mention: O.S. 18...

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Lombard Exchange and Reading Room
On the south side of Lombard Street, about No. 40 (O.S. 1880). White Hart Yard and Quaker's Meeting...

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