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Mud
·vt To bury in mud.
II. Mud ·vt To make muddy or turbid.
III. Mud ·noun Earth and water mixed so a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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mud
A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors.
Se...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Hen
·noun The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hen
grace; quiet; rest
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
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Hen
Common in later times among the Jews in Palestine (Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34). It is noticeable that t...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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hen
A woman. A cock and hen club; a club composed of men and women.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Hen
The hen is nowhere noticed in the Bible except in (Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34) That a bird so common ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Sea mud
·- A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure;
— calle...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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mud lark
A fellow who goes about by the water side picking up coals, nails, or other articles in the mud. Als...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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mud-fat
adj.
fat as mud, very fat.
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 142:
«There's half th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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mud-fish
n.
a fish of Westland, New Zealand, Neochanna apoda, Gunth. Guenther says Neochannais a «degraded f...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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mud-lark
n.
another name for the Magpie-lark, Grallina picata (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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mud-turtle
The popular name of a reptile common in all parts of the United States. Marsh Tortoise and Mud Terra...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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drift-mud
Consisting chiefly of an argillaceous earth, brought down by the rivers, floated about, and successi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-drags
Implements and machines for clearing rivers and docks.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud or ballast dredger
A vessel of 300 tons or more, fitted with steam-engine beams and metal buckets. By this powerful mac...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-fish
The Lepidosiren, a very remarkable fish of the Gambia and other African rivers.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-hole
An orifice with steam-tight doors in a marine engine, through which the deposit is removed from the ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-lands
The extensive marshes left dry by the retiring tide in estuaries and river mouths.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-larks
People who grovel about bays and harbours at low water for anything they can find.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-lighter
Large heavy punts which receive the mud or other matter from a dredging vessel. It is the Marie Salo...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-pattens
Broad clogs used for crossing mud-lands in the south of England by those who take sea-fowl.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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mud-shores
Are not unfrequent on an open coast. The most remarkable instance, perhaps, is that of the Guiana; t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Daker hen
·- The corncrake or land rail.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dandy-hen
·noun ·f A bantam fowl.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hen-hearted
·adj Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sea hen
·- the common guillemot;
— applied also to various other sea birds.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Tappit hen
·- A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head.
II. Tappit hen ·- A measuring pot holding one quart...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water hen
·- Any gallinule.
II. Water hen ·- The common American coot.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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hen-hearted
Cowardly.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hen house
A house where the woman rules; called also a SHE HOUSE, and HEN FRIGATE: the latter a sea phrase, or...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fat-hen
n.
a kind of wild spinach.In England the name is applied to various plants of thickfoliage.
1847. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jungle-hen
n.
name given to a mound-buildingbird, Megapodius tumulus, Gould. See also Megapode. The Indian Jun...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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mallee-hen
n.
Same as mallee-bird (q.v.).
1890. `Victorian Statutes-Game Act, Third Schedule':
[Close Season...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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maori-hen
n.
Same as Weka (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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moor-hen
n.
common English bird-name( Gallinula). The Australian species are – – the Black, Gallinula tenebr...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native-hen
n.
name applied to various speciesof the genus Tribonyx (q.v.). The Australian speciesare – – Tribo...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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scrub-hen
i.q. scrub-fowl.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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swamp-hen
n.
an Australasian bird, Porphyrio melanonotus, Temm. (often incorrectlyshortened to Melanotus). Ca...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hen-hawk
(Falco lineatus.) The popular name of the red-shouldered hawk of naturalists.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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prairie-hen
The pinnated grouse of ornithologists. It is also called Heath-hen and Grouse in some parts of the c...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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clocking hen
a hen desirous of sitting to hatch her eggs. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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clucking hen
a hen desirous of sitting to hatch her eggs. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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hen-bawks
a hen-roost, from the bawks of which it consists. See BAWKS. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cape-hen
See molly-mawk.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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hen-frigate
A ship wherein the captain's wife interfered in the duty or regulations.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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sea-hen
A name of the fish Trigla lyra, or crooner (which see).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Blue Hen State
·add. ·- The State of Delaware;
— a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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moon-eyed hen
A squinting wench.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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brood-hen star
The cluster of the Pleiades.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Hen and Chickens Court
North out of Fleet Street at No. 183, east of St. Dunstan's church, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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as fat as a hen in the forehead
A saying of a meagre person.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose