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Web
·noun The bit of a key.
II. Web ·noun The blade of a saw.
III. Web ·noun The blade of a sword.
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Morning
·adj Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, ...
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Cob
·noun A young herring.
II. Cob ·noun Clay mixed with straw.
III. Cob ·noun The top or head of anyt...
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cob
1) A Spanish dollar.
2) or cobbing
A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregula...
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cob
1) a blow ; likewise to throw. Derb. Also a basket of wicker to carry on the arm ; a seed-cob, or se...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cob
A young herring. Also, a sea-gull. Also, a sort of short break-water so called in our early statutes...
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Spider web
·- ·Alt. of Spider's web.
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Spider's web
·- The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap thei...
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Web-fingered
·adj Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
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Web-footed
·adj Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl.
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Web-toed
·adj Having the toes united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
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Morning-glory
·noun A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink,...
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Yester-morning
·noun The morning of yesterday.
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Star, Morning
A name figuratively given to Christ (Rev. 22:16; comp. 2 Pet. 1:19). When Christ promises that he wi...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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morning drop
The gallows. He napped the king's pardon and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned, and was not ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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morning gun
The gun fired from the admiral's or senior officer's ship, to announce day-break, which is answered ...
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morning star
An offensive weapon of the mediæval times, consisting of a staff, to which was attached an iron ball...
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morning watch
Those of the crew on watch from 4 to 8 A.M.
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Sea cob
·- The black-backed gull.
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cob-coals
large pit-coals. N.
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cob-ibon
an andiron. S.
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cob-irons
brand-irons.
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cob-joe
a nut at the end of a string. Derb.
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cob-loaf
a crusty, deformed loaf. North.
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cob-nut
a game, which consists in pitching at a row of nuts piled up in heaps of four, that is, three at bot...
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herring-cob
A young herring.
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grey of the morning
twilight, from day-break to clear light. S.
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pride of the morning
A misty dew at sunrise; a light shower; the end of the land breeze followed by a dead calm in the tr...
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose