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long and short boards
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Short
·noun A summary account.
II. Short ·noun Short, inferior hemp.
III. Short ·noun Breeches; shortclo...
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short
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Long
·superl Far-reaching; extensive.
II. Long ·noun A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
III. Long ·adv T...
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long
Great. A long price; a great price.
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long
1) great; as a long price.
2) tough meat is said " to eat long in the mouth." North.
3) long it hi...
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Cold-short
·adj Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
II. Cold-short ·add. ·adj Brittle when cold (that is, ...
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Hot-short
·adj More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.
II. Hot-short ·add. ·adj Brittle when he...
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Red-short
·adj Hot-short; brittle when red-hot;
— said of certain kinds of iron.
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Short circuit
·- A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of rela...
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Short-breathed
·adj Having short life.
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Short-circuit
·vt To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor...
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Short-circuited
·Impf & ·p.p. of Short-circuit.
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Short-circuiting
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Short-circuit.
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Short-dated
·adj Having little time to run from the date.
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Short-handed
·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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Short-jointed
·adj Having short intervals between the joints;
— said of a plant or an animal, especially of a hor...
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Short-lived
·adj Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short...
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Short-spoken
·adj Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
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Short-waisted
·adj Having a short waist.
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Short-winded
·adj Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthm...
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Short-wited
·adj Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
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Short Street
West out of Finsbury Pavement, at No. 65, to Little Moorfields (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to cut short
To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption,--Johnson.
The judge cut off the counsel very shor...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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short-comings
Defective performance; deficiency as to duty.--Worcester.
Here is proof that very little was known ...
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short gown
A short gown with hardly any skirt, worn by women when doing household work, as washing, &c.
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hove-short
The ship with her cable hove taut towards her anchor, when the sails are usually loosed and braced f...
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short stay
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...
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short apeek
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...
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short allowance
When the provisions will not last the period expected, they may be reduced in part, as two-thirds, h...
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short boards
Frequent tacking, where there is not room for long boards, or from some other cause, as weather or t...
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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short-sea
A confused cross sea where the waves assume a jerking rippling action, and set home to the bows or s...
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short-service
Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range.
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short-sheets
Belong to shifting sails, such as studding-sails, &c.
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short-tacks
See short boards.
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short-time
or sand glass.
One of 14 seconds, used in heaving the log when the ship is going fast.
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Long primer
·- A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
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Long-armed
·adj Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.
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Long-breathed
·adj Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.
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Long-drawn
·adj Extended to a great length.
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Long-horned
·adj Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennae, as certain b...
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Long-lived
·adj Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting ...
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Long-sight
·noun Long-sightedness.
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Long-sighted
·adj Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic.
II. Long-s...
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Long-sightedness
·noun ·see <<Hypermetropia>>.
II. Long-sightedness ·noun The state or condition of being long-sight...
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Long-stop
·noun One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
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Long-sufferance
·noun Forbearance to punish or resent.
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Long-suffering
·noun Long patience of offense.
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Long-tongue
·noun The <<Wryneck>>.
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Long-tongued
·adj Having a long tongue.
II. Long-tongued ·adj Talkative; babbling; loquacious.
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Long-waisted
·adj Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the armpits to the bottom of the waist;
— said o...
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Long-winded
·adj Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker...
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Long, George
(1800-1879)
Classical scholar, ed. at Camb. He was Prof. of Ancient Languages in the Univ. of Virgi...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Long Alley
Near Fleet Ditch, at Blackfriars (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Long Entry
1) Out of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
2) South of ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Long Lane
West out of Aldersgate Street to West Smithfield (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Long Walk
1) North from Christ's Hospital to St. Bartholomew's Hospital (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 195-Boyle, ...
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long one
A hare; a term used by poachers.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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long gallery
Throwing, or rather trundling, the dice the whole length of the board.
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long meg
A jeering name for a very tall woman: from one famous in story, called Long Meg of Westminster.
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long shanks
A long-legged person.
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long stomach
A voracious appetite.
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long tongued
Loquacious, not able to keep a secret. He is as long-tongued as Granny: Granny was an idiot who coul...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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long-winded
A long-winded parson; one who preached long, tedious sermons. A long-winded paymaster; one who takes...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tom long
A tiresome story teller. It is coming by Tom Long, the carrier; said of any thing that has been long...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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long-fin
n.
name given to the fish Caprodonschlegelii, Gunth., and in New South Wales to Anthiaslongimanus, ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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long-jack
name given to the tree Flindersiaoxleyana, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae; called alsoLight Yellow-Wood.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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long-sleever
n.
name for a big drink and alsofor the glass in which it is contained. Perhaps in allusion toits t...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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long-tom
n.
name given in Sydney to Beloneferox, Gunth., a species of Garfish which has bothjaws prolonged t...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yam, long
n.
a tuber, Discoreatransversa, R. Br., N.O. Dioscorideae. «The smalltubers are eaten by the aborig...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
Mr. Divver offered a resolution summarily removing the superintende...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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long knives
A term applied to Europeans and their descendants, by the North American Indians. It signifies weare...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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long dog
a greyhound. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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long-cripple
a viper. Exm.
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long balls
Engaging beyond the reach of carronades.
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long boat
Is carvel-built, full, flat, and high, and is usually the largest boat belonging to a ship, furnishe...
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long-bow
A noted weapon formerly supplied to our men-of-war.
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long chalks
Great strides. (See chalks.)
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long-gaskets
Those used for sea service; the opposite of harbour-gaskets (which see).
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long-jawed
The state of rope when its strands are straightened by being much strained and untwisted, and from i...
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long-leave
Permission to visit friends at a distance.
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long-legged
Said of a vessel drawing much water.
♦ Long leggers, lean schooners. Longer than ordinary proporti...
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long oyster
A name of the sea cray-fish.
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long-service
A cable properly served to prevent chafing under particular use.
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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long stroke
The order to a boat's crew to stretch out and hang on her.
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long-tackles
Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of d...
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long-tails
A sobriquet for the Chinese.
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long timbers
, or long top-timbers.
Synonymous with double futtocks. Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from ...
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long togs
Landsman's clothes.
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long tom
, or long tom turks.
Pieces of lengthy ordnance for chasers, &c.
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long voyage
One in which the Atlantic Ocean is crossed.
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short-heeled wench
A girl apt to fall on her back.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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heave short, to
To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor, or sufficiently near it for sai...
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short-linked chain
A cable without studs, and therefore with shorter links than those of stud-chains; such are slings a...
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long stern-timbers
See stern-timbers.
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long top-timbers
See long timbers
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long-winded whistlers
Chase-guns.
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Long Shop in Cheap
A long shop or shed encroaching on the high street before the wall of St. Peter's church in Cheap wa...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Castor and Pollux
·- ·see Saint Elmo's fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
...
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In and an
·adj & ·adv Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. ·see under <<Breeding>...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Lords and Ladies
·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
...
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tops-and-bottoms
·noun ·pl Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food fo...
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
·add. ·- Two things practically alike;
— a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "O...
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Azur and Azzur
Helper.
1) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1).
2) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. ...
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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Castor and Pollux
The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or scul...
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Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubi...
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Tryphena and Tryphosa
Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
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Bell and Crown
On the north side of Holborn, east of Furnival's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without. The southern porti...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Rose and Crown
A house so called in parish of St. Michael Crooked Lane demised to the use of the church and parish ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird and baby
The sign of the eagle and child.
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
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bubble and squeak
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
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buttock and file
A common whore and a pick-pocket. Cant.
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buttock and twang, or down buttock and sham file
A common whore, but no pickpocket.
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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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to chop and change
To exchange backwards and forwards. To chop, in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurryin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ducks and drakes
To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.
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gog and magog
Two giants, whose effigies stand on each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom there is a ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels...
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here and thereian
One who has no settled place of residence.
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hide and seek
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
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inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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milk and water
Both ends of the busk.
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monks and friars
Terms used by printers: monks are sheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black; friars...
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orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second ...
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pothooks and hangeks
A scrawl, bad writing.
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quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...
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quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
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roaratorios and uproars
Oratorios and operas.
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roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...
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six and tips
Whisky and small beer. IRISH.
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sixes and sevens
Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, &c. is sca...
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tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...
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chock-and-log
n. and adj.
a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tagrag-and-bobtail
n.
a species of sea-weed.See quotation.
1866. S. Hannaford, `Wild Flowers of Tasmania,' p. 80:
«I...
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wattle-and-dab
a rough mode of architecture, verycommon in Australia at an early date. The phrase and itsmeaning ar...
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by fits and starts
At short and sudden intervals interruptedly.
As prayer is a duty of daily occurrence, the injunctio...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary.
Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
Where under the sun, says I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-super...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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back and forth
Backwards and forwards, applied to a person in walking, as, "He was walking back and forth." A commo...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
I ...
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chinking and daubing
The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In...
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cut and dried
Ready made.
I am for John C. Calhoun for the presidency; and will not go for Mr. Van Buren, the man...
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hither and yon
This expression is often used in the country towns of New England for here and there. It is never he...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hums and hahs
A familiar expression applied to one who hesitates in speaking. 'None of your hums and hahs!' that i...
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off and on
Vacillating, changeable, undecided; in which sense it is much used with us. In England it is also us...
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out and out
1) Thorough.
Henry Clay is such a statesman as the country wanted. We want a long tried, well known...
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sixes and sevens
'To be at sixes and sevens,' is to be in a state of disorder and confusion. A ludicrous expression t...
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spack and applejees
(Dutch.) Pork and apples, cooked together. An ancient Dutch dish made in New York.
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tarring and feathering
A punishment sometimes inflicted by indignantly virtuous mobs in Southern and Western States, on per...
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fending and proving
disputing, arguing pro and con. C.
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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb.
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hither and you
here and there, backwards and forwards. N.
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marry and shall
i. e. that I will. North.
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milt and melt
the soft roe of a fish. York.
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money and gold
silver and gold. York.
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peas and sport
See scadding of peas.
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rid and ridden
dispatch and dispatched : It rids well : it goes on fast. It will soon be ridden, i. e. got rid of. ...
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runches and runchballs
carlock, when dried and withered. N.
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saugh and sauf
sallow. N.
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snod and snog
neat, handsome : as, snogly gear'd, handsomely dressed. N. SNOG-MALT, smooth, with few combs.
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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act and intention
Must be united in admiralty law.
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costs and damage
Demurrage is generally given against a captor for unjustifiable detention. Where English merchants p...
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cut and thrust
To give point with a sword after striking a slash.
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den and strond
A liberty for ships or vessels to run or come ashore. Edward I. granted this privilege to the barons...
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fast and loose
An uncertain and shuffling conduct.
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fifer and fidler
Two very important aids in eliciting exact discipline; for hoisting, warping, and heaving at the cap...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fore-and-aft
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
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fore-and-after
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...
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full and by
Sailing close-hauled on a wind; when a ship is as close as she will lie to the wind, without sufferi...
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pudding and dolphin
A larger and lesser pad, made of ropes, and put round the masts under the lower yards.
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rank and file
This word includes corporals as well as privates, all below sergeants. (See file.)
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ribs and trucks
Used figuratively for fragments.
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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...
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rouse and bit
The order to turn out of the hammocks.
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soak and send!
The order to pass wet swabs along.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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stock and fluke
The whole of anything.
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