touch-me-not

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• Touch-me-not

  ·noun ·see <<Impatiens>>. II. Touch-me-not ·noun Squirting cucumber. ·see under <<Cucumber>>. ...

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• Forget-me-not

  ·noun A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, ·etc.), bearing a beautiful bl...

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• Not

  ·adj Shorn; shaven. II. Not ·- Wot not; know not; knows not. III. Not ·adv A word used to express ...

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• not

  1) smooth, polled or shorn ; not-sheep, sheep without horns. Ess. That field is not, that field is w...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• me

  me, for mihi, v. ego init. ...

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• me

  mē acc.and abl.of ego. ...

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• Me

  ·pron One. ·see <<Men>>, ·pron II. Me (·pron·pers) The person speaking, regarded as an object; myse...

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• me

  for I. The objective case of pronouns is often used for the nominative by the illiterate. In New Yor...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Touch

  ·noun A boys' game; tag. II. Touch ·v An emotion or affection. III. Touch ·v A slight and brief es...

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• touch

  To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• touch

  No touch to it, i. e. not to compare with it. A common expression in vulgar language. The children ...

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• touch

  In ship-building, the broadest part of a plank worked top-and-butt. Also, the angles of the stern-ti...

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• Not-pated

  ·adj ·Alt. of Nott-pated. ...

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• Why-not

  ·noun A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening....

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• what not

  In New York a piece of furniture usually placed in a parlor, consisting of several shelves, upon whi...

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• not lost

  See lost ...

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• Me-jarkon

  Waters of yellowness, or clear waters, a river in the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:46). It has been identi...

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• dear me

  An exclamation of surprise, used in the same sense as "Oh dear!" ...

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• deary me

  An exclamation of surprise, used in the same sense as "Oh dear!" ...

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• wa's me!

  woe is me! Var. Dial. ...

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• Touch-box

  ·noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle t...

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• Touch-needle

  ·noun A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, ...

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• Touch-paper

  ·noun Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, a...

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• touch-box

  The receptacle for lighted tinder when match-locks were used. ...

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• touch-hole

  The small aperture at the end of a musket or pistol, by which the fire of the priming was communicat...

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• touch-wood

  See punk. ...

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• Noli-me-tangere

  ·noun The squirting cucumber. ·see under <<Cucumber>>. II. Noli-me-tangere ·noun Any plant of a gen...

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• Pick-me-up

  ·add. ·noun A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. ...

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• knock me down

  Strong ale or beer, stingo. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• strip me naked

  Gin. ...

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• kiss-me-quick

  A homemade quilted bonnet which does not extend beyond the face. They are chiefly used to cover the ...

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• jaw-me-down

  An arrogant, overbearing, and unsound loud arguer. ...

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• touch-and-go

  Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or...

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• touch-and-take

  An old proverb which Nelson applied to a ship about to encounter her opponent. A Nelsonian maxim. ...

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• touch bun for luck

  See bun. ...

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• luff and touch her!

  Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.) ...

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• tar-brush, touch of the

  A nautical term applied to those who are slightly darkened by mixed blood. ...

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• touch of the tar-brush

  A nautical phrase expressive of those officers who are seamen as well as quarter-deckers. Also said ...

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• touch up in the bunt, to

  To mend the sail on the yard; figuratively, to goad or remind forcibly. ...

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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

• not born in the woods to be scared by an owl

  Too much used to danger, or threats, to be easily frightened. I just puts my finger to my nose, and...

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