winter-hedge

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• Hedge

  ·vt To surround so as to prevent escape. II. Hedge ·vi To reduce the risk of a wager by making a be...

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• hedge

  To make a hedge; to secure a bet, or wager, laid on one side, by taking the odds on the other, so th...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Hedge

  The Hebrew words thus rendered denote simply that which surrounds or encloses, whether it be a stone...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Winter

  ·noun The period of decay, old age, death, or the like. II. Winter ·vi To keep, feed or manage, dur...

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• hedge alehouse

  A small obscure alehouse. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge creeper

  A robber of hedges. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge priest

  An illiterate unbeneficed curate, a patrico. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge whore

  An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the ways...

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• hedge-laurel

  n. a name given to the tree Mapau (q.v.), an evergreen shrub of New Zealand, of thegenus Pittosporu...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ryzen-hedge

  a fence of stakes and boughs. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Winter-beaten

  ·adj Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. ...

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• Winter-ground

  ·vt To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the ro...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Winter-proud

  ·adj Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. ...

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• Winter-rig

  ·vt To fallow or till in winter. ...

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• Winter, William

  (b. 1836) American critic, etc. Shakespeare's England, Grey Days and Gold, Old Shrines and Ivy Brow...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• winter cricket

  A taylor. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jacky winter

  n. the vernacular name in NewSouth Wales of the Brown Flycatcher, Microeca fascinans,a common littl...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• winter cherry

  n. See balloon vine. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• winter country

  in New Zealand (South Island),land so far unaffected by snow that stock is wintered on it. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• winter-fish

  This term generally alludes to cured cod and ling. ...

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• winter-quarters

  The towns or posts occupied during the winter by troops who quit the campaign for the season. Also, ...

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• winter-solstice

  See capricornus. ...

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• "Winter, John Strange"

  see Stannard, Mrs. Arthur. ...

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