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Gully
·noun A large knife.
II. Gully ·vi To flow noisily.
III. Gully ·noun A grooved iron rail or tram p...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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gully
n.
a narrow valley. The word is verycommon in Australia, and is frequently used as a place name.It ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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gully
A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water.--Webster. This word is much used in the...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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gully
a common knife. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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gully
The channels worn on the face of mountains by heavy rains. Also, a rivulet which empties itself into...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Mouth
·noun Cry; voice.
II. Mouth ·vt To make mouths at.
III. Mouth ·noun The entrance into a harbor.
I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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mouth
1) A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked; one gaping and staring at every thing he sees. To make any one...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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mouth
[the Anglo-Saxon muda]. The embouchure opening of a port or outlet of a river, as Yarmouth, Tynemout...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Gully Hole
South from Thames Street to the river. In Bridge Ward Within, west of London Bridge (O. and M. 1677-...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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gully-raker
n.
a long whip.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 40:
«The driver appealin...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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gully squall
Well known off tropical America in the Pacific, particularly abreast of the lakes of Leon, Nicaragua...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bird's-mouth
·noun An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of anot...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Mouth-footed
·adj Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Mouth-made
·adj Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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round mouth
The fundament. Brother round mouth, speaks; he has let a fart.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fern-tree gully
See fern-tree and gully.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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word of mouth
To drink by word of mouth, i.e. out of the bowl or bottle instead, of a glass.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hand to mouth
'To live from hand to mouth,' is said of a person who spends his money as fast as he gets it, who ea...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Bull and Mouth Inn
On the south side of Bull and Mouth Street, in Aldersgate Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Burnt ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bull and Mouth Street
West out of St. Martin le Grand to King Edward Street, in Farringdon Ward Within and Aldersgate Ward...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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shove in the mouth
A dram.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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down in the mouth
Dispirited, dejected, disheartened.--Brockett's Glossary.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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weeks of the mouth
The sides of it. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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down in the mouth
Low-spirited or disheartened.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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wry mouth and a pissen pair of breeches
Hanging.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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born with a silver spoon in his mouth
To inherit a fortune by birth.
Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says
She was one of th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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born with a silver spoon in his mouth
Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...
The Sailor's Word-Book