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Soap
·vt To rub or wash over with soap. II. Soap ·vt To <<Flatter>>; to <<Wheedle>>. III. Soap ·noun A ...

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Soap
(Jer. 2:22; Mal. 3:2; Heb. borith), properly a vegetable alkali, obtained from the ashes of certain ...

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Soap
The Hebrew term borith is a general term for any substance of cleansing qualities. As, however, it a...

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Lock
·noun A grapple in wrestling. II. Lock ·noun A device for keeping a wheel from turning. III. Lock ...

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Lock
The Hebrews usually secured their doors by bars of wood or iron (Isa. 45:2; 1 Kings 4:3). These were...

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lock
1) A scheme, a mode. I must fight that lock; I must try that scheme. 2) Character. He stood a queer...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
lock!
an exclamation of surprise ; as, what! heyday! Exm. ...

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lock
I. The striking instrument by which fire is produced for the discharge of a gun, containing the co...

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Lock
Where European locks have not been introduced, the locks of eastern houses are usually of wood, and ...

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Castile soap
·- A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in i...

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Fuller's soap
(Heb. borith mekabbeshim, i.e., "alkali of those treading cloth"). Mention is made (Prov. 25:20; Jer...

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soft soap
Flattery; blarney. A vulgar phrase, though much used. to soft soap To flatter; to blarney. I am t...

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Double-lock
·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. ...

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Hammer lock
·add. ·- A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his op...

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Hip lock
·add. ·- A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip. ...

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Lock hospital
·- A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. ...

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Lock step
·- A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the ...

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Lock stitch
·- A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by s...

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Lock-down
·noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; — used by lumbermen. ...

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Lock-weir
·noun A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. ...

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lock hospital
An hospital for venereal patients. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
black-lock
A trout thought to be peculiar to Lough Melvin, on the west of Ireland. ...

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fire-lock
Formerly the common name for a musket; the fire-arm carried by a foot-soldier, marine, or small-arm ...

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lock, to
To entangle the lower yards when tacking. ...

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lock-fast
A modified principle in the breech-loading of fire-arms. ...

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wheel-lock
A small machine attached to the old musket for producing sparks of fire. ...

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lock up house
A spunging house; a public house kept by sheriff's officers, to which they convey the persons they h...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
lock, stock, and barrel
The whole. A figurative expression borrowed from sportsmen, and having reference to a gun. Look at ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
lock, stock, and barrel
An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole. ...

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hammer, of a gun-lock
Formerly the steel covering of the pan from which the flint of the cock struck sparks on to the prim...

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