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May
·noun The merrymaking of May Day.
II. May ·noun A <<Maiden>>.
III. May ·noun The early part or spr...
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Bug
·noun A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
II. Bug ·noun One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the...
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bug
A nick name given by the Irish to Englishmen; bugs having, as it is said, been introduced into Irela...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bug
In the United States coleopterous insects are invariably called bugs; thus May bug, June bug, golden...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bug
to bend. Kent. Bug up.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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bug
An old term for a vessel more remarkable in size than efficiency.
Thus, when Drake fell upon Cadiz...
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May laws
·add. ·- ·see <<Kulturkampf>>, above.
II. May laws ·add. ·- In Russia, severe oppressive laws again...
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May, Thomas
(1595-1650)
Poet and historian, b. in Sussex, s. of Sir Thomas M., of Mayfield, went to Camb., and ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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May Square
On the west side of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O.S. 1875-80).
"Tyson Court" in...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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may bees
May bees don't fly all the year long; an answer to any one who prefaces a proposition with, It may b...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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may-apple
(Genus, podophyllum.) A plant, the root of which is medicinal, answering as a substitute for jalup.-...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Boat bug
·- An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta;
— so called from swimming on its back, whi...
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Croton bug
·- A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common abo...
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Kissing bug
·add. ·- Any one of several species of blood-sucking, venomous Hemiptera that sometimes bite the lip...
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Pinacate bug
·add. ·- Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.
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Sea bug
·- A <<Chiton>>.
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Water bug
·- The Croton bug.
II. Water bug ·- Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemip...
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to bug
A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of whi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bug-hunter
An upholsterer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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june-bug
the green beetle. Kent.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Sinclair, Miss May
Novelist, etc. Nakietas and other Poems, Audrey Craven, Two Sides of a Question, The Divine Fire, Th...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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May, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough
(1815-1886)
Jurist and historian, ed. at Bedford School, and after holding various minor offices be...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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merry men of may
Dangerous currents formed by the ebb-tides.
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Crommelin, May de la Cherois
Novelist. Queenie, My Love She's but a Lassie, Orange Lily, For the Sake of the Family, Crimson Lili...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin