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Poor
·superl Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
II. Poor ·superl Inadequate; insuffi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Poor
The Mosaic legislation regarding the poor is specially important.
1) They had the right of gleaning...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Poor
The general kindly spirit of the law toward the poor is sufficiently shown by such passages as (15:7...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Body
·noun Amount; quantity; extent.
II. Body ·noun A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; an...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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body
A person. A colloquial expression used both in England and America.
Good may come out of evil, and ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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body
The principal corps of an army, or the main strength of a fleet.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Land-poor
·adj Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Poor-john
·noun A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Poor-spirited
·adj Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Poor-will
·noun A bird of the Western United States (Phalaenoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Poor-willie
·noun The bar-tailed godwit.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Poor Jewry
"Pauperum Judaismum "in parish of St. Olave near the Friars of the Holy Cross in 1349 (Ct. H.W. I. 5...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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poor-soldier
or Soldier-Bird (q.v.),
n.
another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.),and so named from its cry.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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poor soldier
See soldier-birdI.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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poor john
Hake-fish salted and dried, as well as dried stock-fish, and bad bacalao, or cod, equally cheap and ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Torpedo body
·add. ·- An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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body snatchers
Bum bailiffs.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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after-body
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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body-hoops
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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body-plan
The draught of a proposed ship, showing the breadth and timbers; it is a section supposed to cut the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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body-post
An additional stern-post introduced at the fore-part of an aperture cut in the dead-wood in a ship f...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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cant-body
An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fore-body
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Whip-poor-will
·noun An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker;
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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(St.) Peter le Poor
On the West side of Old Broad Street. In Broad Street Ward (O.S.).
Earliest mention found in record...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Poor Jewry Lane
See Jewry Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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poor as job's turkey
A common simile.
The professor is as poor as Job's turkey, if it wasn't for that powerful salary th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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body, of a place
In fortification, the space inclosed by the enceinte, or line of bastions and curtains.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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furling in a body
A method of rolling up a top-sail only practised in harbour, by gathering all the loose part of the ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Stable Yard, Poor Jewry Lane
West out of Poor Jewry Lane. In Aldgate Ward (Rocque, 1746).
Site now occupied by bonded warehouses...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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longitude of a celestial body
An arc of the ecliptic, contained between the first point of Aries and a circle of longitude passing...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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terminal velocity of any given body
The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body
A short clumsy person, either male or female.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose