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come
cŏmē, ēs, f., = κόμη, a plant , also called tragopogon, prob Tragopogon crocifolius, Linn., crocu...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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Come
Cōmē, ēs, f., = Κώμη (a village). I Come Hiera, a town in Caria , with a temple and an oracle of ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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Come
·p.p. of Come.
II. Come ·noun <<Coming>>.
III. Come ·noun To approach or arrive, as if by a journe...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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come
To come; to lend. Has he come it; has he lent it? To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Can't
·- A colloquial contraction for can not.
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Cant
·noun A corner; angle; niche.
II. Cant ·noun An outer or external angle.
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cant
1) An hypocrite, a double-tongue palavering fellow.
See palaver.
2) To cant; to toss or throw: as,...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to cant
To turn about; to turn over; a common use of the word, not mentioned by Johnson or Todd. It is, howe...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cant
1) strong, lusty : very cant, God yield you ; i. e. very strong and lusty, God reward you. Chesh.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cant
A cut made in a whale between the neck and the fins, to which the cant-purchase is made fast, for tu...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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It
·pron As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
II. It ·pron As a ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Macra Come
MACRA COME a place mentioned by Livy (Liv. 32.13) along with Sperchiae. Its position is uncertain, b...
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
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Xyline Come
XYLINE COME a village in Pisidia, between Corbasa and Termessus, is mentioned only by Livy (Liv. 38....
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
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Come-along
·add. ·noun A gripping device, as for stretching wire, ·etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to ...
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Come-outer
·noun One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.
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kingdom come
He is gone to kingdom come, he is dead.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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come-outers
This name has been applied to a considerable number of persons in various parts of the Northern Stat...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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done come
Come. A vulgarism peculiar to the South.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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how-come?
Rapidly pronounced huc-cum, in Virginia. Doubtless an English phrase, brought over by the original s...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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come-again
the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Cant hook
·- A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end;
— used for canting or turning over heavy ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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cant-hook
A wooden lever, with an iron hook at one end, with which heavy articles of merchandise or timber are...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cant, to
To turn anything about, or so that it does not stand square. To diverge from a central right line. C...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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cant-blocks
The large purchase-blocks used by whalers to cant the whales round under the process of flensing.
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cant-body
An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...
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cant-falls
See spike-tackle.
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cant-hook
A lever with a hook at one end for heavy articles.
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cant-line
Synonymous with girt-line, as to cant the top over the lowermast-head.
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cant-purchase
This is formed by a block suspended from the mainmast-head, and another block made fast to the cant ...
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cant-ribbons
Those ribbons that do not lie in a horizontal or level direction.
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cant-rope
See four-cant.
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cant-spar
A hand-mast pole, fit for making small masts or yards, booms, &c.
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cant-timbers
They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...
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four-cant
A rope composed of four strands.
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cheese it
Be silent, be quiet, don't do it. Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dragooning it
A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stubble it
Hold your tongue. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to trig it
To play truant. To lay a man trigging; to knock him down.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to rail it
To travel by rail-road.
From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to spark it
To court. Used chiefly in New England.
You were a nation sight wiser than brother Jonathan, sister ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to streak it
is to run as fast as possible.
O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel,
A' roads to her were go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fix it
A vulgarism of recent origin, but now very common. It is heard in such phrases as, 'I will not do so...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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d'rabbit it
a vulgar exclamation or abbreviation of God rabbit it, a foolish evasion of an oath. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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odd-come-shortlys
I'll do it one of these odd-come-shortly's; I will do it some time or another.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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come no near!
The order to the helmsman to steer the ship on the course indicated, and not closer to the wind, whi...
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hang it up
Score it up: speaking of a reckoning.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle- cock...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pick-it-up
n.
a boys' name for the Diamondbird (q.v.).
1896. G. A. Keartland, `Horne Expedition in CentralAus...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go it strong
To perform an act with vigor or without scruple.
President Polk in his message goes it strong for t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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done did it
for has done it, or performed it.--Sherwood's Georgia.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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i swamp it!
An interjection of the same meaning as I swan! which see.
Had that darn'd old vessel--that frigate ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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in for it
Engaged in a thing from which there is no retreating.
You may twitch at your collar and wrinkle you...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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say of it
taste it. S. From the French word. ESSAYER.
Sc ADDING OF PEAS, a custom in the North, of boiling th...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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away with it
The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c.
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crabbing to it
Carrying an over-press of sail in a fresh gale, by which a ship crabs or drifts sideways to leeward....
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foot it in
An order to stow the bunt of a sail snugly in furling, executed by the bunt-men dancing it in, holdi...
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make it so
The order of a commander to confirm the time, sunrise, noon, or sunset, reported to him by the offic...
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plank it, to
To sleep on the bare decks, choosing, as the galley saying has it, the softest plank.
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staggering under it
A ship's labouring under as much canvas as she can bear.
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stash it there!
An old order to cease or be quiet.
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to-morrow come never
When two Sundays come together; never.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cut and come again
An expression in vulgar language, implying that having cut as much as you pleased, you may come agai...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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old dog at it
Expert, accustomed.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to give it to one
is to rate, scold, or beat him severely.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. Used in the same sense in America.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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buckle-a-doing-it
set about it. York. The common expression is BUCKLE-TO.
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blow over, (it will)
Said of a gale which is expected to pass away quickly.
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grin and bear it
The stoical resignation to unavoidable hardship, which, being heard on board ship by Lord Byron, pro...
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run away with it!
The order to men on a tackle fall, when light goods are being hoisted in, or in hoisting top-sails, ...
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capstan, to come up the
In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slack...
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to blot the skrip and jar it
To stand engaged or bound for any one. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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any how you can fix it
At any rate whatever.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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looking as if one could not help it
Looking like a simpleton, or as if one could not say boh! to a goose.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.
Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose