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Wrong
·- imp. of Wring. Wrung.
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wrong
crooked ; a wrong man or woman. Norf.
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paper-bark tree
or Paper-barked Tea-tree
,n.
Called also Milk-wood (q.v.). Name given tothe species Melaleuca leuc...
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Bark
·vt To girdle. ·see <<Girdle>>, ·vt, 3.
II. Bark ·noun ·Alt. of <<Barque>>.
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bark
a box for receiving the ends or pieces of candles. N.
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bark
I.
The exterior covering of vegetable bodies, many of which are useful in making paper, cordage, c...
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cast the wrong way
See wrong way.
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Self-wrong
·noun Wrong done by a person himself.
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Wrong-timed
·adj Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
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wrong, to
To out-sail a vessel by becalming her sails is said to wrong her.
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wrong way
When the ship casts in the opposite direction to that desired. Also, a ship swinging in a tide's way...
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Up
·prep <<Upon>>.
II. Up ·adv Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapon...
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Tree
·noun Wood; timber.
II. Tree ·noun A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
III. Tree ·vt To drive to a...
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to tree
To take refuge in a tree, said of a wild animal; to force to take refuge in a tree, drive to a tree,...
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Angostura bark
·- An aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a South American of the rue family (Galipea cuspa...
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Angustura bark
·- ·see Angostura bark.
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Bark beetle
·- A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in t...
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Bark louse
·- An insect of the family Coccidae, which infests the bark of trees and vines.
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Calisaya bark
·- A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related s...
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Lace-bark
·noun A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia);
— so called from the lacelike layers of its i...
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Mancona bark
·- ·see Sassy bark.
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Nine-bark
·noun A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, / Spiraea, opulifolia), common in the Northern Unit...
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Quillaia bark
·- The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated,...
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Sassy bark
·- The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an o...
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Winter's bark
·- The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in S...
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bitter-bark
n.
an Australian tree, Petalostigma quadrilo culare, F. v. M., N.O. Euphorbiacea. Called also Crab-...
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fever-bark
n.
another name for Bitter-bark (q.v.).
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lacey-bark
See lace-bark
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lace-bark
Lacey-bark, or Lacewood
,n.
names for Ribbonwood (q.v.). The inner bark of thetree is like fine la...
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ring-bark
v. tr.
Same meaning as Ring(1).
1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 204:
«The selector in a timb...
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stringy-bark
I.
n.
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wattle-bark
n. the bark of the wattle;much used in tanning, and forms a staple export.
1875. `Spectator' (Melbo...
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cramp-bark
(Viburnum oxycoccus.) The popular name of a medicinal plant; its properties anti-spasmodic. It bears...
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candle-bark
A cylindrical tin box for candles.
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water-bark
A small decked vessel or tank, used by the Dutch for carrying fresh water.
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to fire into the wrong flock
is a metaphorical expression used at the West, denoting that one has mistaken his object, as when a ...
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to get the wrong pig by the tail
is to make a mistake in selecting a person for any object. If a charge is made against a man, who on...
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hurry up the cakes
i.e. Be quick; look alive. This phrase, which has lately got into vogue, originated in the common Ne...
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up to the hub
To the extreme point. The figure is that of a vehicle sunk in the mud up to the hub of the wheels, w...
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toss the oars up!
Throw them up out of the rowlocks, and raise them perpendicularly an-end; the act is intended as a c...
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up with the helm
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...
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The
·vi ·see <<Thee>>.
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Break-up
·noun Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly...
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Flare-up
·noun A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
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Frame-up
·add. ·noun A conspiracy or plot, ·esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person ...
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Get-up
·noun General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; ...
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Higher-up
·add. ·noun A superior officer or official;
— used chiefly in ·pl
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Hunt's-up
·noun A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousi...
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Let-up
·noun Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
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Line-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Lineup>>.
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Make-up
·noun The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is d...
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Making-up
·noun The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
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Pick-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Pickup>>.
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Pricking-up
·noun The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once ...
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Put-up
·adj Arranged; plotted;
— in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
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Round-up
·add. ·noun A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, s round-up of criminals.
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Seven-up
·noun The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.
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Start-up
·noun A kind of high rustic shoe.
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Steep-up
·adj Lofty and precipitous.
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Step-up
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-u...
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Stuck-up
·adj Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.
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Take-up
·noun That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the...
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Tilt-up
·noun ·same·as Tip-up.
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Tip-up
·noun The spotted sandpiper;
— called also teeter-tail. ·see under <<Sandpiper>>.
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Up-line
·noun A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the ...
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Up-over
·add. ·adj Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising i...
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Up-train
·- A train going in the direction conventionally called up.
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Up-wind
·add. ·adv Against the wind.
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Wind-up
·add. ·noun Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end.
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back up
His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, w...
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bang up
(WHIP.)
Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up...
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blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
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cooped up
Imprisoned, confined like a fowl in a coop.
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dished up
He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. To throw a thing in one's dish; to reproach or twi...
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagances. Modern Term.
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to mop up
To drink up. To empty a glass or pot.
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tucked up
Hanged. A tucker up to an old bachelor or widower; a supposed mistress.
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turned up
Acquitted; discharged.
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used up
Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedit...
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bail up
v.
1) To secure the head of a cow in abail for milking.
2) By transference, to stop travellers in ...
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hang up
v.
to tie up a horse.
1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' p. 49 [Footnote]:
«In Melbourne there a...
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log up
v.
to make a log-support for thewindlass.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. v. p. 54:
«W...
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ready up
v.
See quotation.
1893. `The Age,' Nov. 25, p. 13, col. 2:
« Mr. Purees: A statement has been mad...
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roll up
v. intr.
to gather, to assemble.
1887. J. Farrell, `How he died,' p. 26:
«The miners all rolled u...
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roll-up
n.
a meeting. See preceding verb.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xxxv. p. 308:
«Makin...
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stick-up
v. tr.
1) The regular word for theaction of bushrangers stopping passers-by on the highway androbbi...
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sticker-up
I.
n. sc.
a bushranger.
1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 197:
«They had only just been liber...
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stock-up
v.
complete the number of animalson a station, so that it may carry its full complement.
1890. Rol...
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to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...
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to brisk up
To come up with life and speed; to take an erect or bold attitude.--Webster. An Americanism.
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to brush up
To prepare oneself; to take courage.
When Miss Mary came, I brushed up, and was determined to have ...
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to chaw up
To use up; demolish.
I heerd Tom Jones swar he'd chaw me up, if an inch of me was found in them dig...
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to crack up
To crack, i. e. to brag or boast, is a verb common in old authors, from Chaucer downwards, and still...
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cuddle up
To hug or fondle. So used in some parts of England.
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to cut up
1) To criticise with severity; as, he was severely cut up in the newspapers.
Some correspondent ask...
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to fetch up
To stop suddenly. This sense of the word is not noticed in the English dictionaries, nor by Webster....
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to flare up
To blaze out; to get excited suddenly; to get into a passion.
It is expected that this grand discus...
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to hold up
In allusion to the weather, to clear up, after a storm; to stop raining.
Though nice and dark the p...
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to knock up
To wear out with fatigue.--Halliwell.
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to pony up
A vulgar phrase, meaning to pay over money. Ex. 'Come, Mr. B----, pony up that account;' that is, pa...
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to row up
To punish with words; to rebuke. It is an essential Westernism, and derived from the practice of mak...
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to serve up
To expose to ridicule; to expose.
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to shut up
To hold one's tongue. A vulgar expression.
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to slick up
To dress up; to make fine.
Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored silk sh...
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to spruce up
To dress oneself sprucely. In Sussex (England) they say, to sprug up, in the same sense.
To-night w...
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to square up
To put oneself in an attitude fit for boxing. Provincial in various parts of England.--Halliwell.
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to stive up
To stuff up close.--Johnson.
Things are a good deal stived up. People's minds are sour, and I don't...
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to tip up
To raise up one end, as of a cart, so that the contents may pass out.--Worcester. Both this and the ...
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to use up
To discomfit; destroy. Grose has this word, which he calls a military one, meaning killed.
I have p...
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to wind up
To close up; to give the quietus to an antagonist in a debate; to effectually demolish.
John Bell, ...
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blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation.
There was a regular blow-...
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build up
To erect; and metaphorically to establish, to found.
In this manner it was thought we should sooner...
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buttoning up
A Wall street phrase. When a broker has bought stock on speculation and it falls suddenly on his han...
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chock up
Close, tight; said of a thing which fits closely to another.
When the bells ring, the wood-work the...
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagance.--Grose. We use it colloquially, where a person is ruined in any w...
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let up
A let up is a release; a relief. An expression borrowed from pugilists.
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pertend up
Better; more cheerful.--Sherwood's Georgia.
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pick-up
A pick-up, or a pick-up dinner, is a dinner made up of such fragments of cold meats as remain from f...
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tilt-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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tip-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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up to
To be up to a thing,' is to understand it. A common English and American vulgarism.
Have you ever t...
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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brail up!
The order to pull upon the brails, and thereby spill and haul in the sail. The mizen, or spanker, or...
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breezing up
The gale freshening.
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bringers up
The last men in a boarding or small-arm party. Among soldiers, it means the whole last rank of a bat...
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broke-up
Said of a gale of wind passing away; or a ship which has gone to pieces on a reef, &c.
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bundle-up!
The call to the men below to hurry up on deck.
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chock-up
, chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c.
Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...
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clue up!
The order to clue up the square sails.
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dock up
, or duck up
To clue up a corner of a sail that hinders the helmsman from seeing.
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drawing up
Adjusting a ship's station in the line; the converse of dropping astern.
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drifting-up
Is used as relating to sands which are driven by the winds. As at Cape Blanco, on the coast of Afric...
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duck-up!
A term used by the steersman when the main-sail, fore-sail, or sprit-sail hinders his seeing to stee...
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fly-up
A sudden deviation upwards from a sheer line; the term is nearly synonymous with flight.
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hard up
The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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jiggered-up
Done up; tired out.
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laid up
A vessel dismantled and moored in a harbour, either for want of employment, or as unfit for further ...
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rounding-up
Is to haul through the slack of a tackle which hangs in a perpendicular direction, without sustainin...
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setting-up
Raising a ship from her blocks, shores, &c., by wedges driven between the heels of the shore and the...
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set up
Soldiers, mariners, and small-arm men, well drilled, and instructed to be upright and soldierlike in...
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sharp up
Trimmed as near as possible to the wind, with the yards braced up nearly fore and aft.
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standing up
A ship in good trim, and well attended to, is said to stand well up to her canvas.
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tail up
When a whale dives perpendicularly. In this case whalers expect the fish to rise near the same spot....
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take-up
The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel in a marine boiler. Also, a seaman takes...
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tumble up!
A requisition of the boatswain's mates, &c., to quicken the hands after being piped up. The cry is w...
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up along
Sailing from the mouth of the channel upwards.
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up anchor
Pipe to weigh; every man to his station.
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up boats!
The order to hoist the boats to the stern and quarter davits.
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up courses!
The order to haul them up by the clue-garnets, &c.
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up screw!
The order in steamers to lift the screw on making sail.
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'way up!
See way aloft!
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wedging up
Gaining security by driving wedges.
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working up
The keeping men at work on needless matters, beyond the usual hours, for punishment.
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Amber tree
·- A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant od...
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Bay tree
·- A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis).
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Beam tree
·- A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.
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Beech tree
·- The <<Beech>>.
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Bito tree
·add. ·- A small scrubby tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and A...
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Bo tree
·- The peepul tree; ·esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a s...
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Bully tree
·- The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of S...
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Candleberry tree
·- A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of...
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Caper tree
·- ·see <<Capper>>, a plant, 2.
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Cow tree
·- A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incis...
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Crab tree
·- ·see under <<Crab>>.
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Fir tree
·- ·see <<Fir>>.
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Fringe tree
·add. ·- A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clust...
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Galapee tree
·- The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.
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Gatten tree
·- A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea),...
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Genip tree
·add. ·- Any tree or shrub of the genus Genipa.
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Gourd tree
·- A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.
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Grass tree
·- A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
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Hep tree
·- The wild dog-rose.
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Hip tree
·- The dog-rose.
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Ironbark tree
·- The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders;
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Locust tree
·- A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender raceme...
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Mahwa tree
·- An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used f...
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Neem tree
·- An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and M. Azedarach. ·see <<Margosa>>.
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Nickar tree
·- ·same·as Nicker nut, Nicker tree.
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Nicker tree
·- The plant producing nicker nuts.
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Ople tree
·- The witch-hazel.
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Peepul tree
·- A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and...
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Pipal tree
·- ·same·as Peepul tree.
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Pippul tree
·- ·same·as Peepul tree.
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Plane tree
·- ·same·as 1st Plane.
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Planer tree
·- A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, ...
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Quicken tree
·- The European rowan tree;
— called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. ·see Rowan tree.
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Rowan tree
·- A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs ...
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Shea tree
·- An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, / Butyrospermum, Parkii), from the seeds of which a substanc...
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Shittah tree
·noun A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, ·etc., of th...
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Soapberry tree
·- Any tree of the genus Sapindus, ·esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used ...
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Til tree
·- ·see <<Teil>>.
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Tree burial
·add. ·- Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trun...
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Tree calf
·add. ·- A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike des...
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Water tree
·- A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, / potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery s...
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Weeping tree
·add. ·- Any tree having pendulous branches.
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Whitten tree
·- Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish bra...
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Witch-tree
·noun The witch-hazel.
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