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• What

  ·noun Something; thing; stuff. II. What (·pron, ·adj, ·adv) As a relative pronoun. III. What (inte...

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• what

  for that or who. A vulgarism often heard amongst us, but probably still more common in England. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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

• what's what

  'To know what's what,' is to know the nature of things, or as we classically express it, 'to be up t...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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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• not lost

  See lost ...

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• what cheer, ho?

  Equivalent among seamen to, How fare ye? ...

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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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• Touch-me-not

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

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• touch-me-not

  (Lat. impatiens noli tangere.) A plant found about brooks, and in moist places.--Michaux, Sylva. A p...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• what ship is that?

  A question often put when a jaw-breaking word has been intrusively uttered by savants. ...

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• what water have you?

  The question to the man sounding, as to the depth of water which the lead-line gives. ...

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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...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.