a guide-post which shews the right way it does not go. Cant term.
·vt To touch lightly; to toy with. II. Finger ·vt To execute, as any delicate work. III. Finger ·v...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. ...
·- A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56. ...
·noun Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria). II. Bishop's-weed ·noun An umbelliferous plant of the genus...
·noun Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or d...
·noun ·see <<Cinquefoil>>. II. Five-finger ·noun A starfish with five rays, ·esp. Asterias rubens. ...
·- The kidney vetch. II. Lady's finger ·- One of the branchiae of the lobster. III. Lady's finger ...
1) In Chick Lane (W. Stow, 1722). Not further identified. 2) West out of Old Bailey at No.17 (P.O....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
1) West out of Coleman Street at No.6. In Coleman Street Ward. (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831). The si...
See Mary (St.) Bishopsgate (Hospital of) [Mary without Bishopsgate, Hospital of?]. ...
A messuage so called in Coleman Street in parish of St. Stephen 27 Eliz. 1585 (Lond. I. p.m. III. p....
A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the fin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
See fore-finger ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
, or index-finger. The pointing finger, which was called shoot-finger by the Anglo-Saxons, from it...
This was a term in use with the Anglo-Saxons from its necessity in archery, and is now called the tr...
See fore-finger. ...
To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a c...
On the north-west side of St. Paul's Church (S. 373). Mentioned by Ralph de Diceto in his Opera His...