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Wood
·vi To take or get a supply of wood.
II. Wood ·noun Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
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wood
In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of troubles, puzzled, or at a loss what course to take i...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to wood
To supply or get supplies of wood.--Webster. The boats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in their ...
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Black
·noun A black pigment or dye.
II. Black ·noun A stain; a spot; a smooch.
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Black
Properly the absence of all colour. In Prov. 7:9 the Hebrew word means, as in the margin of the Revi...
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black
To look black at one, to look at one with anger or deep resentment depicted on the countenance.
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wood and wood
When two pieces of timber are so let into each other as to join close. Also, when a tree-nail is dri...
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Aloes wood
·- ·see <<Agalloch>>.
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Amboyna wood
·- A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Ind...
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Bethabara wood
·- A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, ·etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be ...
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Brazil wood
·- The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan;
— so called before the discovery of America.
II. Br...
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Calamander wood
·- A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very...
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Campeachy Wood
·- <<Logwood>>.
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Cassava wood
·add. ·- A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceae.
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Cocus wood
·- A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.
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Gopher wood
·- A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark.
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Kiabooca wood
·- ·see Kyaboca wood.
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Kyaboca wood
·- Amboyna wood.
II. Kyaboca wood ·- Sandalwood (Santalum album).
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Lingoa wood
·- Amboyna wood.
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Madeira wood
·add. ·- The mahogany tree (Swietenia Mahogoni).
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Myall wood
·- A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obta...
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Nicaragua wood
·- Brazil wood.
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Omander wood
·- The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.
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Rosetta wood
·- An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasio...
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Sapan wood
·- A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighb...
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Sappan wood
·- Sapan wood.
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Shittim wood
·noun The wood of the shittah tree.
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Thyine wood
·- The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called...
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Wood gum
·add. ·- <<Xylan>>.
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Wood hyacinth
·add. ·- A European squill (Scilla nonscripta) having a scape bearing a raceme of drooping blue, pur...
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Wood partridge
·add. ·- The Canada grouse.
II. Wood partridge ·add. ·- Any of several small partridges of Java, Su...
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Wood tick
·- Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly ...
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Wood-bound
·adj Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.
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Wood-layer
·noun A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants ...
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Wood-note
·noun A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird.
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Wood-sare
·noun A kind of froth seen on herbs.
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Wood-sere
·noun The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.
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Wood-wash
·noun ·Alt. of Wood-waxen.
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Wood-wax
·noun ·Alt. of Wood-waxen.
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Wood-waxen
·noun ·same·as <<Woadwaxen>>.
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Thyine wood
Mentioned only in Rev. 18:12 among the articles which would cease to be purchased when Babylon fell....
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Wood-offering
(Neh. 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah arrangements were made, probably on ...
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Wood, or À Wood, Anthony
(1632-1695)
Antiquary, was b. at Oxf., where he was ed. and spent most of his life. His antiquarian...
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Wood Street
North out of Cheapside, at No.122, to London Wall (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within and Cr...
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Wood Wharf
On the east and west sides of Trigg Lane, in Queenhithe Ward (O. and M. 1677, and Strype, 1720 and 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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wood pecker
A bystander, who bets whilst another plays.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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blood-wood
or Blood-tree
n.
a nameapplied, with various epithets, to many of the Gum-trees (q.v.), especially...
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box-wood
n.
a New Zealand wood, Olealanceolata, Hook., N.O. Jasminea (Maori name, Maire). Used by the `Welli...
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camphor-wood
n.
an Australian timber; the woodof Callitris (Frenea) robusta, Cunn., N.O. Coniferae. Called also ...
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coopers-wood
n. the timber of an Australiantree, Alphitonia excelsa, Reiss, N.O. Rhamneae.The wood becomes dark w...
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cotton-wood
n.
the timber of an Australiantree, Bedfordia salicina, De C., N.O. Compositae.Called Dog-wood (q.v...
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ivory-wood
n.
an Australian timber, Siphonodon australe, Benth., N.O. Celastrinae.
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leather-wood
n.
i.q. pinkwood (q.v.).
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lemon-wood
n.
one of the names given bysettlers to the New Zealand tree called by Maoris Tarata (q.v.), or Map...
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marble(-)wood
n.
name applied to awhitish-coloured mottled timber, Olea paniculata,R. Br., N.O. Jasmineae; called...
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milk-wood
n.
a Northern Territory namefor Melaleuca leucadendron, Linn.; called also Paperbark-tree (q.v.).
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musk-wood
n.
See musk-tree.
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partridge-wood
n.
another name for the Cabbage-Palm (q.v.).
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scent-wood
a Tasmanian evergreen shrub, Alyxiabuxifolia, R. Br., N.O. Apocyneae, of the dogbanefamily.
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tallow-wood
n.
another name for one of the Stringy-barks (q.v.), Eucalyptus microcorys,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae...
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tar-wood
n.
name given by the Otago bushmen tothe tree Darrydium colensoi, Hook.; Maori name, Manoao (q.v.)....
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tulip-wood
n.
The name is given,in Australia, to Aphnanthe philipinensis, Planch., N.O. Urticaceae, and to the...
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turnip-wood
n.
the timbers of the trees Akania hillii, J. Hook., N.O. Sapindaceae,and Dysoxylon Muelleri, Benth...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white wood
See waddy wood
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waddy wood
or White Wood
n.
name given in Tasmania to the tree Pittosporum bicolor,Hook., N.O. Pittosporeae; ...
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wood-duck
n.
a name given by the colonists ofNew South Wales and «Swan River» to the Maned Goose, Branta juba...
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wood savages
See wood natives
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wood natives
or Wood Savages
obsolete names for the Australian aborigines.
1817. O'Hara, `History of New South ...
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yellow-wood
a name applied to several Australiantrees with the epithets of Dark, Light, Deep, etc., inallusion t...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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button wood
(Platanus occidentalis.) The popular name in New England of the sycamore tree; so called from the ha...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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stam-wood
the roots of trees, stubbed up. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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billet-wood
Small wood mostly used for dunnage in stowing ships' cargoes, also for fuel, usually sold by the fat...
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dead wood
Certain blocks of timber, generally oak, fayed on the upper side of the keel, particularly at the ex...
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fathom-wood
Slab and other offal of timber, sold at the yards, by fathom lots: cubic measurement.
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hawse-wood
A general name for the hawse-timbers.
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lag-wood
The larger sticks from the head of an oak-tree when felled.
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peon-wood
See poon-wood.
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wood, to
A gun is said to wood when it takes the port-sills or port-sides, or the trucks the water-ways.
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wood-ends
See hood-ends.
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wood-mulls
Large thick hose worn by the men in coasters and fishing-boats.
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wood-sheathing
All plank applied to strengthen a vessel. (See double, to.)
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Thyine Wood
occurs in (Revelation 18:12) where the margin has "sweet" (wood). There can be little doubt that the...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Black art
·- The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Black bass
·- The sea bass. ·see <<Blackfish>>, 3.
II. Black bass ·- An edible, fresh-water fish of the United...
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Black book
·- Any book which treats of necromancy.
II. Black book ·- A book of admiralty law, of the highest a...
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Black death
·- A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
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Black Flags
·add. ·- An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by t...
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Black friar
·- A friar of the Dominican order;
— called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin....
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Black Friday
·add. ·- Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when ...
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Black Hamburg
·add. ·- A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown und...
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Black Hand
·add. ·- A lawless or blackmailing secret society, ·esp. among Italians.
II. Black Hand ·add. ·- A ...
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Black hole
·- A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom;
— now commonly with allusio...
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Black lead
·- Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. ·see <<Graphite>>.
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Black letter
·- The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the fi...
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Black Monday
·- The first Monday after the holidays;
— so called by English schoolboys.
II. Black Monday ·- Eas...
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Black monk
·- A Benedictine monk.
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Black pudding
·- A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, ·etc., thickened with meal.
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Black Rod
·- An usher in the legislature of British colonies.
II. Black Rod ·- the usher to the Chapter of th...
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Black salts
·- Crude potash.
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Black snake
·noun ·Alt. of <<Blacksnake>>.
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Black Spanish
·add. ·- One of an old and well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumag...
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Black vomit
·- A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged;
— one of the most fat...
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Black wash
·noun ·Alt. of <<Blackwash>>.
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Black-browed
·adj Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
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Black-eyed
·adj Having black eyes.
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Black-faced
·adj Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
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Black-hearted
·adj Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
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Black-jack
·noun The ensign of a pirate.
II. Black-jack ·noun The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
III. Black-ja...
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Black-letter
·adj Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
II. Black-letter ·a...
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Black-mouthed
·adj Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
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Brunswick black
·- ·see Japan black.
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Coal-black
·adj As black as coal; jet black; very black.
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Frankfort black
·- A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, ·...
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Jet-black
·adj Black as jet; deep black.
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Magnase black
·- A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.
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Pitch-black
·adj Black as pitch or tar.
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Black, William
(1841-1898)
Novelist. After studying as a landscape painter, he took to journalism in Glasgow. In 1...
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The Black Bull
On the north side of Holborn, in Farringdon Ward Without, west of Hatton Garden.
See Bull Inn.
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Black Friars
A house of Dominican Friars near Ludgate on the site known later as the precinct of Blackfriars.
Fo...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Black Lyon
A messuage in the street called Candelwicke Streete, in the parish of Blessed Mary Abchurch, 25 Eliz...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Black Posts
On the east side of Bell Alley or Back Alley, London Wall Street over against Swan Alley. In Broad S...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Black Raven
On the west side of Bishopsgate, No. 136. In Bishopsgate Ward Without. Contains an old-fashioned sta...
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black art
The art of picking a lock. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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black book
He is down in the black book, i.e. has a stain in his character. A black book is keep in most regime...
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black box
A lawyer. Cant.
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black eye
We gave the bottle a black eye, i.e. drank it almost up. He cannot say black is the white of my eye;...
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black fly
The greatest drawback on the farmer is the black fly, i.e. the parson who takes tithe of the harvest...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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black guard
A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be derived from a number of dirty, tattered roguish boys, who ...
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black jack
1) A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves.
2) A jug to drink out of, made of jacked leath...
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black joke
A popular tune to a song, having for the burden, "Her black joke and belly so white:" figuratively t...
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black indies
Newcastle upon Tyne, whose rich coal mines prove an Indies to the proprietors.
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black monday
The first Monday after the school-boys holidays, or breaking up, when they are to go to school, and ...
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black psalm
To sing the black psalm; to cry: a saying used to children.
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black strap
Bene Carlo wine; also port. A task of labour imposed on soldiers at Gibraltar, as a punishment for s...
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black-birding
I.
n.
kidnapping natives of South Sea islands for service in Queensland plantations.
1871. `Narra...
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black-bream
n.
an Australian fish, Chrysophrys australis, Gunth., family Sparidae,or Sea-Breams; called in Tasm...
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black-cod
n.
a New Zealand fish, Nototheniaangustata.
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black-fern
n.
The Tasmanian species so calledis Athyrium australe, Presl., N.O. Polypodeae.
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black-fish
n.
The name is given, especially inSydney, to the sea-fishes Girella simplex, Richards (see Ludrick...
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black-line
See Black-War.
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black-perch
n.
a river fish of New South Wales. Therapon niger, Castln., family Percidae.A different fish from ...
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black-snake
See under snake.
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black-swan
See swan, black.
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Black Thursday
the day of a Victorian conflagration,which occurred on Feb. 6, 1851. The thermometer was 112degrees ...
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black-tracker
n.
an aboriginal employed intracking criminals.
1867. `Australia as it is,' pp. 88-9:
«The native...
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black-trevally
See trevally.
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Black-War
or Black-Line
a military operation planned in 1830 by Governor Arthur for the captureof the Tasmani...
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Black Wednesday
n.
a political phrase for aday in Victoria (Jan. 9, 1878), when the Government withoutnotice dismis...
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hat, black
n.
slang for a new immigrant.
1887. R. M. Praed, `Longleat of Kooralbyn,' c. xxviii. p. 277:
«Lor...
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palm, black
n.
a Queensland timber-tree, Ptychosperma normanbyi, F. v. M., N.O. Palmeae.
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plum, black
n. the fruit of the tree Cargillia australis, R. Br., N.O. Ebenaceae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful N...
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swan, black
n.
an Australian bird – – Cycnusniger, Juvenal; Cygnus atratus, Gould; Chenopsisatrata, Wagl., some...
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black-book
A book was kept in the English monasteries, during the reign of Henry VIII., in which details of the...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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black-leg
The common term here and in England for a gambler.
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black-mail
Formerly, money paid to men allied with robbers to be protected by them from being robbed.--Cowell. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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black-worm
the black-beetle. Cornish.
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black-birds
A slang term on the coast of Africa for a cargo of slaves.
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black-fish
A common name applied by sailors to many different species of cetaceans. The animal so called in the...
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black-fisher
A water-poacher: one who kills salmon in close-time.
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black-fishing
The illegally taking of salmon, under night, by means of torches and spears with barbed prongs.
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black-head
The pewitt-gull (Larus ridibundus).
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black-hole
A place of solitary confinement for soldiers, and tried in some large ships.
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black-indies
Newcastle, Sunderland, and Shields.
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black-jack
The ensign of a pirate. Also, a capacious tin can for beer, which was formerly made of waxed leather...
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black-list
A record of misdemeanours impolitically kept by some officers for their private use the very essence...
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black-lock
A trout thought to be peculiar to Lough Melvin, on the west of Ireland.
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black ships
The name by which the English builders designate those constructed of teak in India.
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black squall
This squall, although generally ascribed to the West Indies, as well as the white squall, may be pri...
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black-strake
The range of plank immediately above the wales in a ship's side; they are always covered with a mixt...
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black-strap
The dark country wines of the Mediterranean. Also, bad port, such as was served for the sick in form...
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black-tang
The sea-weed Fucus vesicolosus, or tangle.
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black whale
The name by which the right whale of the south seas (Balæna australis) is often known to whalemen.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Sea wood louse
·- A sea slater.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ephraim, Wood of
A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was k...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Wood, Mrs. Ellen (Price)
(1814-1887)
Novelist, writing as "Mrs. Henry Wood," was b. at Worcester. She wrote over 30 novels, ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Wood, John George
(1827-1889)
Writer on natural history, s. of a surgeon, b. in London, and ed. at home and at Oxf., ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Alban (St.), Wood Street
On the east side of Wood Street, at the corner of Little Love Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Great Wood Street
See Wood Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Little Wood Street
See Wood Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Michael Wood Street
On the west side of Wood Street, and north side of Huggin Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Within (O.S. 188...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Red Wood Alley
West out of Bishopsgate Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Called " Ge...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Wood Green Court
South-east out of Harrow Alley, Middlesex Street. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-O.S...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Wood Street Compter
On the east side of Wood Street, in Cripplegate Ward Within.
One of the Sheriffs' Prisons.
First m...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Wood Street Square
West out of Hart Street at No.3 at its junction with Monkwell Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (P.O...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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king's wood lion
An Ass. Kingswood is famous for the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit that plac...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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botany-bay wood
See botany-bay oak
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dead-wood fence
n.
The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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deep yellow-wood
n.
Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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light yellow-wood
i.q. long-jack (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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seame of wood
a horse-load. S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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churd of wood
See cord of wood
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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cord or churd of wood
; as firewood. A statute stack is 8 feet long, 4 feet broad, and 4 feet high.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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dead-wood knees
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Black-a-vised
·adj Dark-visaged; swart.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language