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• Fence

  ·noun A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received. II. Fence ·noun A projection ...

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• Fence

  (Heb. gader), Num. 22:24 (R.V.). Fences were constructions of unmortared stones, to protect gardens,...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• to fence

  To pawn or sell to a receiver of stolen goods. The kiddey fenced his thimble for three quids; the yo...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• on the fence

  In politics, to be on the fence, is to be neutral, or to be ready to join the strongest party, whene...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• fence

  A palisade. Also, the arm of the hammer-spring of a gun-lock. ...

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• Worm

  ·noun Any annelid. II. Worm ·noun An insect larva. III. Worm ·noun The thread of a screw. IV. Wor...

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• Worm

  1) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. 2) The manna bred worms (tola...

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• worm

  To worm out; to obtain the knowledge of a secret by craft, also to undermine or supplant. He is gone...

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• worm

  An iron tool shaped like a double cork-screw on the end of a long staff, for withdrawing charges, ig...

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• Worm

  the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas, which occurs in (Isaiah 5...

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• Flower-fence

  ·noun A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and ...

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• basket-fence

  n. Local name for a stake-hedge. See quotation. 1872. G. S. Baden-Powell, `New Homes for the Old C...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cockatoo fence

  n. fence erected by smallfarmers. 1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. xxii. p. 155: «...

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• fence-riding

  Sitting on the fence, i. e. keeping neutral in politics. The South will not vote for a Northern can...

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• Army worm

  ·- The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order....

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• Galley-worm

  ·noun A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along ...

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• Grugru worm

  ·- The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith o...

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• Palolo worm

  ·add. ·- A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific...

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• Worm-eaten

  ·adj Worn-out; old; worthless. II. Worm-eaten ·adj Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as,...

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• Worm-shaped

  ·adj Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shap...

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• Worm-shell

  ·noun Any species of Vermetus. ...

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• Palmer-worm

  (Heb. gazam). The English word may denote either a caterpillar (as rendered by the LXX.), which wand...

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• spanish worm

  A nail: so called by carpenters when they meet with one in a board they are sawing. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stomach worm

  The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry. ...

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• worm-snake

  n. See under snake. ...

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• black-worm

  the black-beetle. Cornish. ...

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

• blind-worm

  the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S. ...

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

• worm-stall

  a shed in a field to which cattle retire to avoid flies. Derb. ...

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

• lob-worm

  A worm found at low-water in sand, esteemed for bait. ...

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• worm-eaten

  , or wormed. The state of a plank or of a ship's bottom when perforated by a particular kind of bo...

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• dead-wood fence

  n. The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• crooked as a virginia fence

  A phrase applied to anything very crooked; and figuratively to persons of a stub-born temper, who ar...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.