bull's eyes

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• Bull's-eye

  ·noun The center of a target. II. Bull's-eye ·noun A small and thick old-fashioned watch. III. Bul...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bull's-nose

  ·noun An external angle when obtuse or rounded. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bull's eye

  A crown-piece. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bull's feather

  A horn: he wears the bull's feather; he is a cuckold. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bull's-eye

  n. a fish of New South Wales, Priacanthus macracanthus, Cuv.and Val. Priacanthus, says Guenther, is...

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

• bulls-wool

  n. colloquial name for the innerportion of the covering of the Stringybark-tree (q.v.).This is a dr...

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

• bull's-eye

  A sort of block without a sheave, for a rope to reeve through; it is grooved for stropping. Also, th...

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• Nine-eyes

  ·noun The <<Lamprey>>. ...

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• eight eyes

  I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• glass eyes

  A nick name for one wearing spectacles. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat's eyes

  n. Not the true Cat's-eye,but the name given in Australia to the opercula of Turbosmaragdus, Martyn...

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

• lashing-eyes

  Fittings for lower stays, block-strops, &c., by loops made in the ends of ropes, for a lashing to be...

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• thimble-eyes

  Are thimble-shaped apertures in iron-plates where sheaves are not required; frequently used instead ...

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• Bull's Head Court

  East out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-L.C.C. List, 1912). See Bloomfield...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bull's Head Passage

  1) East out of Gracechurch Street at No. 81 (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within. Leading in...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bull's-eye cringle

  A piece of wood in the form of a ring, which answers the purpose of an iron thimble; it is seldom us...

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• blind-your-eyes

  n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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

• eyes of her

  The foremost part of the bay, or in the bows of a ship. In olden times, and now in Spanish and Itali...

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• Covering of the eyes

  Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is "it (i.e., Abimelech's present of...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• eyes of a messenger

  Eyes spliced in its ends to lash together. ...

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• eyes of a ship

  (See eyes of her.) ...

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• squaring the dead-eyes

  Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of the ship. ...

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