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• Berry

  ·noun The coffee bean. II. Berry ·noun A mound; a hillock. III. Berry ·vi To bear or produce berri...

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• berry

  to berry, to thresh out corn. N. ...

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• Service

  ·noun The act of serving the ball. II. Service ·- ·Alt. of Service. III. Service ·noun Hence, a mu...

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• service

  The profession; as a general term, expresses every kind of duty which a naval or military man can be...

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• Avignon berry

  ·- The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; — so called from ...

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• Oso-berry

  ·noun The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and Cal...

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• Salal-berry

  ·noun The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwar...

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• Berry Court

  1) South out of Love Lane at No.6. In Cripplegate Ward Within (Elmes, 1831). (Seems to be shown in O...

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• Berry Street

  See Bury Street. ...

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• apple-berry

  n. the fruit of an Australianshrub, Billardiera scandens, Smith,N.O. Pittosporeae, called by childr...

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• coffee berry

  See coffee plant ...

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• ground-berry

  i.q. cranberry (q.v.).: See cranberry, native ...

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• peach-berry

  n. a Tasmanian berry, Lissanthestrigosa, Smith, N.O. Epacrideae. ...

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• purple berry

  n. Tasmanian name for Billardiera longiflora, Lab., N.O. Pittosporeae.See Pittosporum. 1880. Mrs. ...

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• red(-)berry

  n. name given to Australian plantsof the genus Rhagodia, bearing spikes or panicles ofred berries. ...

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• sea-berry

  n. See red-berry. ...

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• turquoise-berry

  n. i.q. Solomon's Seal (q.v.). ...

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• wine-berry

  n. See tutu. In Australia,the name is given to Polyosma cunninghamii, Benn., N.O. Saxifrageae. ...

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• blue-berry

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• chequer berry

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• thimble berry

  The Black Raspberry, so called by many. ...

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• whin-berry

  a bilberry, or whortle-berry. North. ...

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• wind-berry

  a bilberry or whortleberry. N. ...

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• Bond service

  ·- The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery. ...

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• Bord service

  ·- Service due from a bordar; bordage. ...

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• Knight service

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Knight's service. II. Knight service ·- A tenure of lands held by knights on cond...

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• Knight's service

  ·add. ·- Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service. II. Knight...

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• Secret service

  ·add. ·- The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of...

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• Service cap

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat. ...

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• Service hat

  ·add. ·- A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is...

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• Service uniform

  ·add. ·- The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dr...

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• recruiting service

  Robbing on the highway. ...

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• active service

  Duty against an enemy; operations in his presence. Or in the present day it denotes serving on full-...

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• divine service

  Ordered by the articles of war, whenever the weather on a Sunday will allow of it. ...

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• foreign service

  Vessels or forces stationed in any part of the world out of the United Kingdom. The opposite of home...

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• grab service

  Country vessels first employed by the Bombay government against the pirates; afterwards erected into...

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• home-service

  The Channel service; any force, either naval or military, stationed in and about the United Kingdom....

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• long-service

  A cable properly served to prevent chafing under particular use. ...

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• merchant service

  The mercantile marine. ...

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• on service

  On duty. ...

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• preventive service

  The establishment of coast-guards at numerous stations along the shores of the United Kingdom for th...

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• short-service

  Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range. ...

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• pigeon-berry tree

  n. i.q. Native Mulberry. See mulberry. ...

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• poison-berry tree

  n. Pittosporumphillyroides, De C., N.O. Pittosporeae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' ...

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• Civil Service Commission

  ·add. ·- In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members,...

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• Civil Service Reform

  ·add. ·- The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of...

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• Public-service corporation

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Quasi-public corporation. ...

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• continuous service men

  Those seamen who, having entered for a period, on being paid off, are permitted to have leave, and r...

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• mend the service

  Put on more service to the cable, or any part of the rigging chafed. ...

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• points of service

  The principal details of duty, which ought to be executed with zeal and alacrity. ...

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• Stable Yard, Berry Street

  South out of Bury Street (southern portion) (Rocque, 1746). It seems to form part of Bury Street no...

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• jil-crow-a-berry

  n. the Anglicised pronunciation and spelling of the aboriginal name for theindigenous Rat-tail Gras...

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• training-ship for the merchant service

  A vessel properly equipped with instructors and means to rear able-bodied lads for the merchant serv...

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