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Spark
·noun A brisk, showy, gay man. II. Spark ·noun A lover; a gallant; a beau. III. Spark ·vi To <<Spa...

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spark
A spruce, trim, or smart fellow. A man that is always thirsty, is said to have a spark in his throat...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
It
·pron As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains. II. It ·pron As a ...

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Jump spark
·add. ·- A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap. ...

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Spark coil
·add. ·- A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus. II...

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Spark gap
·add. ·- The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an el...

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Spark plug
·add. ·- In internal-combustion engines with electric ignition, a plug, screwed into the cylinder he...

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cheese it
Be silent, be quiet, don't do it. Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
dragooning it
A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
stubble it
Hold your tongue. CANT. ...

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to trig it
To play truant. To lay a man trigging; to knock him down. ...

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to rail it
To travel by rail-road. From Petersburgh I railed it through the North Carolina pitch, tar, turpent...

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to streak it
is to run as fast as possible. O'er hill and dale with fury she did dreel, A' roads to her were go...

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fix it
A vulgarism of recent origin, but now very common. It is heard in such phrases as, 'I will not do so...

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d'rabbit it
a vulgar exclamation or abbreviation of God rabbit it, a foolish evasion of an oath. N. ...

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hang it up
Score it up: speaking of a reckoning. ...

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to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle- cock...

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pick-it-up
n. a boys' name for the Diamondbird (q.v.). 1896. G. A. Keartland, `Horne Expedition in CentralAus...

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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...

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to go it strong
To perform an act with vigor or without scruple. President Polk in his message goes it strong for t...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
to keep it up
To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...

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can't come it
is a vulgar expression for cannot do it. "You can't come it over me so," i. e. you cannot effect you...

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done did it
for has done it, or performed it.--Sherwood's Georgia. ...

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i swamp it!
An interjection of the same meaning as I swan! which see. Had that darn'd old vessel--that frigate ...

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in for it
Engaged in a thing from which there is no retreating. You may twitch at your collar and wrinkle you...

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say of it
taste it. S. From the French word. ESSAYER. Sc ADDING OF PEAS, a custom in the North, of boiling th...

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away with it
The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c. ...

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crabbing to it
Carrying an over-press of sail in a fresh gale, by which a ship crabs or drifts sideways to leeward....

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foot it in
An order to stow the bunt of a sail snugly in furling, executed by the bunt-men dancing it in, holdi...

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make it so
The order of a commander to confirm the time, sunrise, noon, or sunset, reported to him by the offic...

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plank it, to
To sleep on the bare decks, choosing, as the galley saying has it, the softest plank. ...

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staggering under it
A ship's labouring under as much canvas as she can bear. ...

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stash it there!
An old order to cease or be quiet. ...

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old dog at it
Expert, accustomed. ...

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to give it to one
is to rate, scold, or beat him severely.--Holloway, Prov. Dict. Used in the same sense in America. ...

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buckle-a-doing-it
set about it. York. The common expression is BUCKLE-TO. ...

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blow over, (it will)
Said of a gale which is expected to pass away quickly. ...

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grin and bear it
The stoical resignation to unavoidable hardship, which, being heard on board ship by Lord Byron, pro...

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run away with it!
The order to men on a tackle fall, when light goods are being hoisted in, or in hoisting top-sails, ...

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to blot the skrip and jar it
To stand engaged or bound for any one. Cant. ...

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any how you can fix it
At any rate whatever. ...

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looking as if one could not help it
Looking like a simpleton, or as if one could not say boh! to a goose. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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