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• albany beef

  A name for the sturgeon of the Hudson River, where it is taken in quantity for commerce. ...

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• Beef

  ·noun Applied colloquially to human flesh. II. Beef ·adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. I...

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• beef

  To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. Cant.--To be in a man's beef; to wound h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef

  A figurative term for strength. ♦ More beef! more men on. ...

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• Beef-witted

  ·noun Stupid; dull. ...

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• Bully beef

  ·add. ·v Pickled or canned beef. ...

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• Mess beef

  ·add. ·- Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest pl...

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• Beef Market

  In Leadenhall Market (P.C. 1732). ...

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• beef eater

  A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupb...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hung beef

  A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fello...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef-wood

  n. the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...

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

• martlemas-beef

  beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpo...

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

• beef-kid

  A mess utensil for carrying meat from the coppers. ...

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• jerked beef

  Charqui. Meat cured by drying in the open air, with or without salt. Also, the name of an American c...

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• Fonblanque, Albany William

  (1793-1872) Journalist and political writer, was of Huguenot descent, the s. of a Commissioner in B...

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• roast-beef dress

  Full uniform; probably from its resemblance to that of the royal beef-eaters. ...

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• roast beef of old england

  A popular air, by which officers are summoned to the dinner-table. ...

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