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• nancy

  n. a Tasmanian name for the flower Anguillaria (q.v.). ...

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

• nancy

  An east-country term for a small lobster. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Miss

  ·noun Harm from mistake. II. Miss ·noun Mistake; error; fault. III. Miss ·noun Loss; want; felt ab...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• miss

  A miss or kept mistress; a harlot. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• nancy dawson

  A popular air by which seamen were summoned to grog. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• miss laycock

  The monosyllable. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Elliot, Miss Jean

  (1727-1805) Poetess, dau. of Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, has a small niche in literature as the au...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Sinclair, Miss May

  Novelist, etc. Nakietas and other Poems, Audrey Craven, Two Sides of a Question, The Divine Fire, Th...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Symonds, Miss E.M. ("George Paston")

  Novelist, etc. A Modern Amazon (1894), A Bread and Butter Miss (1894), The Career of Candida (1896),...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• hit or miss

  To do a thing hit or miss, is to do it at all hazards; that is, with a chance of hitting or gaining,...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Everett-Green, Miss Evelyn

  (b. 1856) Novelist, etc. Last of the Dacres (1886), Dare Lorimer's Heritage (1892), French and Engl...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Harrison, Miss Jane Ellen

  LL.D., etc. (b. 1850) Writer on Greek art and religion. Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin