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Big
·noun ·Alt. of <<Bigg>>.
II. Big ·vt ·Alt. of <<Bigg>>.
III. Big ·superl Having largeness of size;...
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big
barley, to big, to build. Cumb.
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Big-bellied
·adj Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.
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Big-wigged
·adj characterized by pomposity of manner.
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big-bugs
People of consequence.
Then we'll go to the Lord's house--I don't mean to the meetin' house, but wh...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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big-wigs
People of consequence. The same as the last.
Demagogues and place-hunters make the people stare by ...
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big figure
To do things on the big figure, means to do them on a large scale. This vulgar phrase is used at the...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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big knives
A term applied to Europeans and their descendants, by the North American Indians. It signifies weare...
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great big
Very large. Often used by children.
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big-wigs
A cant term for the higher officers.
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-head
(suffix.) A variant of -hood.
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Head
·noun Power; armed force.
II. Head ·noun The antlers of a deer.
III. Head ·noun Tiles laid at the ...
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head
n.
the rammer for crushing quartz ingold-mining.
1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p.7:
«Forty addi...
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head
face ; I told him to his head, I told him to his face. Berks.
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head
The upper part or end of anything, as a mast-head, a timber-head. Also, an ornamental figure on a sh...
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Big Bend State
·add. ·- Tennessee;
— a nickname.
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beak-head bulk-head
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship.
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Addle-head
·noun ·Alt. of Addle-pate.
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Cittern-head
·noun Blockhead; dunce;
— so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved hea...
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Cubbridge-head
·noun A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
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Death's-head
·noun A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of de...
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Dragon's head
·- ·Alt. of Dragon's tail.
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Feather-head
·noun A frivolous or featherbrained person.
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Giddy-head
·noun A person without thought fulness, prudence, or judgment.
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Head gear
·noun ·Alt. of <<Headgear>>.
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Head-cheese
·noun A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pr...
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Head-hunter
·noun A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and ...
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Head-lugged
·adj Lugged or dragged by the head.
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Hot-head
·noun A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.
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Pope's head
·add. ·- A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, ·etc., also for washing windows.
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Shock-head
·adj Shock-headed.
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Snake's-head
·noun The Guinea-hen flower;
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Torsion head
·add. ·- That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
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Tough-head
·noun The ruddy duck.
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Tow-head
·noun The hooded merganser.
II. Tow-head ·noun An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
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Turk's-head
·add. ·noun The melon cactus.
II. Turk's-head ·add. ·noun Any of several species of Echinocactus.
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Woolly-head
·noun A <<Negro>>.
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Head-bands
(Heb. kishshurim), properly girdles or belts for the waist (Isa. 3:20, R.V., "sashes;" Jer. 2:32, re...
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Head-dress
Not in common use among the Hebrews. It is first mentioned in Ex. 28:40 (A.V., "bonnets;" R.V., "hea...
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Bishop's Head
A messuage so called in Coleman Street in parish of St. Stephen 27 Eliz. 1585 (Lond. I. p.m. III. p....
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The Boar's Head
On the north side of Great Eastcheap in the parish of St. Clement Eastcheap, at Nos. 20-22, near the...
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Bore's Head
Mentioned in Circuit of St. Giles' parish (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 87).
Boar's Head, Cripplegate,...
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The Bull Head
A tavern so called within the precinct of St. Martin le Grand, 32 H. viii. 1541 (L. and P. H. VIII. ...
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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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The Horse Head
A capital messuage or tenement so called in Thames Street given to St. Dunstan's Church (Strype, ed....
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King's Head
1) Parish of St. Gregory.
A capital messuage, in parish of St. Gregory, in ward of Castle Baynard, ...
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Moryan's Head
In Bread Street, given to the Parish of All Hallows, 9 Eliz. (Strype, Ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
No la...
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Paul's Head
A hostel so called near " Poulescheyae" in parish of St. Gregory, in Castle Baynard Ward (Strype, Ed...
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The Rammes Head
Brewhouse of Roger James called "The Rammes Head" in parish of All Hallows Barking, 1591 (Maskell, p...
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Saracen's Head
1) See The Horse Head and King's Head.
2) South out of Little Carter Lane in parish of St. Mary Mag...
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cod's head
A stupid fellow.
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head rails
Teeth.
SEA PHRASE.
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jolter head
A large head; metaphorically a stupid fellow.
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sheep's head
Like a sheep's head, all jaw; saying of a talkative man or woman.
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swelled head
A disorder to which horses are extremely liable, particularly those of the subalterns of the army. T...
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blue-head
n.
Tasmanian name for the fishcalled the blue-groper (q.v.)
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bull-head
n.
The name is applied to manyfishes of different families in various parts of the world,none of wh...
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copper-head
n.
See under snake.
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head-station
n.
the principal buildings,including the owner's or manager's house, the hut, store, etc.,of a shee...
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leather-head
n.
another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.), Philemon corniculatus, Lath.See Tropidorhynchus.
1847. ...
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maori-head
n.
a swamp tussock, so called froma fancied resemblance to the head of a Maori. (Compare Black-boy....
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nigger-head
n.
1) Name given in New Zealandto hard blackstones found at the Blue Spur and other miningdistricts...
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white-head
n.
a bird of New Zealand, Clitonyx albicapilla, Buller. Found in North Island,but becoming very rar...
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yellow-head
n.
name given to a bird of NewZealand, Clitonyx ochrocephala, or Native Canary (q.v.), common in So...
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to head off
To get before; to intercept. Ex. 'The thief ran fast, but the officer managed to head him off.'
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head-cheese
The ears and feet of swine cut up fine, and, after being boiled, pressed into the form of a cheese.
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snake-head
An object of dread to travellers on railways. The end of an iron rail, which sometimes is thrown up ...
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gattle-head
a forgetful person. S.
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angel-head
The hook or barb of an arrow; probably angle-head.
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beetle-head
A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...
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billet-head
A carved prow bending in and out, contrariwise to the fiddle-head (scroll-head). Also, a round piece...
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black-head
The pewitt-gull (Larus ridibundus).
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blether-head
A blockhead.
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boulder-head
A work against the encroachment of the sea, made of wooden stakes.
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bull-head
, or bull-jub
A name of the fish called miller's thumb (Cottus gobio).
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cat-head
The cat-head passes through the bow-bulwark obliquely forward on a radial line from the fore-mast, r...
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cross-head
In a steamer's engine, is on the top of the piston-rod athwart the cylinder; and there is another fi...
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dead-head
A kind of dolphin (which see). Also, a rough block of wood used as an anchor-buoy.
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dun-head
In east-country barges the after-planking which forms the cabin.
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family-head
When the stem was surmounted with several full-length figures, as was the custom many years ago.
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fell-head
The top of a mountain not distinguished by a peak.
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fiddle-head
When there is no figure; this means that the termination of the head is formed by a scroll turning a...
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figure-head
A carved bust or full-length figure over the cut-water of a ship; the remains of an ancient supersti...
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floor-head
This, in marine architecture, is the third diagonal, terminating the length of the floors near the b...
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futtock-head
In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings ...
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gilt-head
, or gilt-poll.
The Sparus aurata, a fish of the European and American seas, with a golden mark be...
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grey-head
A fish of the haddock kind, taken on the coast of Galloway.
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hard-head
The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...
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head-boards
The berthing or close-boarding between the head-rails.
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head-cringles
Earing-cringles at the upper clues or corners of a sail.
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head-earings
The laniards to haul out the earings. (See earings.)
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head-fast
A rope or chain employed to fasten the head of a ship or boat to a wharf or buoy, or to some other v...
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head-holes
The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...
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head-knees
Pieces of moulded compass timber fayed edgeways to the cut-water and stem, to steady the former. The...
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head-netting
An ornamental netting used in merchant ships instead of the fayed planking to the head-rails.
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head-piece
A term for the helmet.
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head-pump
A small pump fixed at the vessel's bow, its lower end communicating with the sea: it is mostly used ...
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head-quarters
The place where the general, or commanding officer, takes up his quarters. Also, the man-of-war, or ...
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head-rails
The short rails of the head, extending from the back of the figure to the cat-head: equally useful a...
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head-rope
That part of the bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is according...
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head-sails
A general name for all those sails which may be set on the fore-mast and bowsprit, jib, and flying j...
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head-sea
A name given to the waves when they oppose a ship's course, as the ship must rise over, or cut throu...
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head-sheets
Specially jibs and staysail sheets, before the fore-mast.
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head-stick
A short round stick with a hole at each end, through which the head-rope of some triangular sails is...
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head-way
A ship is said to gather head-way when she passes any object thrown overboard at the bow, and it pas...
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head-wind
A breeze blowing from the direction of the ship's intended course. Thus, if a ship is bound N.E. a N...
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mast-head
The upper part of a mast above the rigging.
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ram-head
An old word for halliard-block.
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rudder-head
The upper end of the rudder-stock. Also, the flat surface of the trunk, which in cabins and ward-roo...
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scroll-head
A slightly curved piece of timber bolted to the knees of the head, in place of a figure: finished of...
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skunk-head
An American coast-name for the pied duck.
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tiller-head
The extremity of the tiller, to which the tiller-ropes are attached.
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trundle-head
The lower drumhead of a capstern, when it is double, and worked on one shaft both on an upper and lo...
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turk's head
An ornamental knot, so called from resembling a turban, used on side-ropes, &c.; it is worked with a...
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warren-head
A northern term for a dam across a river.
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weather-head
The secondary rainbow.
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to go the big figure
To do things on a large scale.
Why, our senators go the big figure on fried oysters and whisky punc...
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Saracen's Head Inn, Saracen's Head Yard
South out of Camomile Street. In Lime Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1848-51).
The site is now oc...
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Baptist's Head Court
East out of Whitecross Street in Cripplegate Ward Without (O.S. 1880).
First mention: P.C. 1732.
F...
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Boar's Head Court
1) East out of Gracechurch Street at No. 80 by Leadenhall Market (Elmes, 1831).
First mention: "Bor...
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Boar's Head Tavern
At Smithfield Bars, near Adam and Eve Alley, on the north side of West Smithfield. In Farringdon War...
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The Bore's Head Tavern
North out of Aldgate High Street, near the Blue Boar Inn (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27). In Portsoken...
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Bore's Head Alley
1) In parish of St. Margaret Lothbury.
Mentioned in Regist. Test. Lond. in 1540 (Strype, ed. 1720, ...
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Bores Head Court
1) South out of Fleet Street, west of Water Lane.
See Boar's Head Court.
2) South-east out of Cow ...
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Bores Head Tavern
In Knightrider Street at its junction with Do Little Lane (S. 365).
No later reference.
Site now o...
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Bore's Head, Cheap
A messuage called the "Bores Hedde" in Chepe, in parish of All Saints in Hony lane, 6 Ed. VI. (Lond....
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Buck's Head Court
South out of Great Distaff Lane, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Removed for the...
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Bull Head Court
1) East out of Snow Hill, near the Conduit, in Farringdon Ward Without (Hatton, 1708).
Not named in...
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Bull Head Tavern
On the south side of Holborn Hill, east of Shoe Lane, adjoining Plumtree Court. In Farringdon Ward W...
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Bull Head Yard
North out of Knightrider Street, in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Site now occupied by offi...
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Bull's Head Court
East out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-L.C.C. List, 1912).
See Bloomfield...
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Bull's Head Passage
1) East out of Gracechurch Street at No. 81 (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within. Leading in...
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Caesar's Head Court
In Crutched Friars (Strype, 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Cock's Head Court
West out of Golden Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : "Cook...
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Cook's Head Court
See Cock's Head Court.
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Duke's Head Court
East out of White Cross Street at No. 42, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831).
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Duke's Head Passage
East out of Paternoster Square, at No. 23, to Ivy Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within.
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Duke's Head Yard
West out of Rose Court, Tower Street (Lockie, 1816).
It seems to be shown in O.S. but not named.
N...
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Emperor's Head Lane
See Bell Wharf Lane.
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Emperor's Head Alley
See Bell Wharf Lane.
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The King's Head, Cheapside
See The Crowned Seld.
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King's Head Court
1) North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720-Boyle, 1799).
Only partly bui...
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King's Head Inn
1) On the west side of the Old Change, at No.17, in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Lockie, 1816...
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King's Head Tavern
On the east side of Chancery Lane, with a passage south to Fleet Street (Rocque, 1746).
Site has be...
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Nagg's Head Court
West out of Bartholomew Lane, in Broad Street Ward (O. and 31. 1677-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Not mention...
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Nagg's Head Inn
South out of London Wall at Little Winchester Street, opposite the Church of All Hallows in ye Wall ...
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Nag's Head Alley
1) West out of the Minories. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746 - Boyle, 1799).
The site seems to be o...
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Nag's Head Court
1) North out of Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without, opposite Green Dragon Court (O. and M. 1677-B...
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Nag's Head Inn
On the west side of Grub Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without, built on a place called " Soldiers Cou...
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Pope's Head Alley
In Broad Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps.
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Pope's Head Court
In Bell Yard (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps.
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Queen's Head Court
1) East out of Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C 1732-L.C.C. List, 1901).
Site now o...
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Queen's Head Passage
South out of Newgate Street, at No. 41, to Paternoster Row. In Farringdon Ward Within (P.O. Director...
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Queen's Head Tavern
1) On the west side of Bishopsgate Street, with a passage into Queen's Head Alley, leading into Broa...
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Ram's Head Court
West out of Moor Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
"Rams Head Alley" ...
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Saracen's Head Inn
On the west side of Friday Street, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Lockie, 1816).
Strype descr...
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Saracen's Head Yard
On the south side of Aldgate at No.5 (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward.
Marks the site of the Sarac...
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Sarcen's Head Inn
On the north side of Snow Hill, west of St. Sepulchre's Church, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 387, ...
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White Head Court
In Duke's Place (W. Stow, 1722-P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps.
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calves head club
A club instituted by the Independents and Presbyterians, to commemorate the decapitation of King Cha...
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king's head inn
The prison of Newgate.
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cat's-head fern
n. Aspidium aculeatum, Sw.:
1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 220:
«The cat's-...
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negro-head beech
n.
See beech.
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beak-head beam
For this important timber see cat-beam.
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bulk-head, the
Afore, is the partition between the forecastle and gratings in the head, and in which are the chase-...
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by the head
When a ship is deeper forward than abaft.
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cylinder cross-head
An adaptation on the top of the piston-rod, stretching out athwart the cylinder, from the ends of wh...
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fetch head-way
or stern-way.
Said of a vessel gathering motion ahead or astern.
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head of water
Water kept to a height by winds, or by artificial dams and sluice-gates. The vertical column which d...
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head to wind
The situation of a ship or boat when her head is pointed directly to windward. The term is particula...
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lasher bull-head
A name for the fish Cottus scorpius.
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make head-way
A ship makes head-way when she advances through the water.
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mast-head men
The men stationed aloft to keep a look-out.
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mast-head pendants
See pendant.
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mizen mast-head
Rear-admirals carry their flag at their mizen.
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too big for his breeches
is said of a man who is above his business; arrogant; haughty.
Gentlemen, I was one of the first to...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Head, Sir Francis Bond
(1793-1875)
Traveller, essayist, and biographer, served in the Engineers, went to South America as ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Baptist Head Coffee House
In Fountain Court, Aldermanbury (Lockie, 1810).
The former site of this house, at the corner of Ald...
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Blew Bores Head Court
See Blue Boar Head Alley.
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Blue Boar Head Alley, Court
North out of Barbican, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-Boyle, 1799). "Blew Bore's Head Cou...
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The Boar's Head, Thames Street
House called the Boar's Head in Billingsgate Ward came into the King's hands under the Statute for a...
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The King's Head, Newgate Street
See Queen's Head Passage.
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Little King's Head Court
Near Shoe Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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Nag's Head Tavern, Cheapside
At No.39, at the east end of Friday Street.
Mentioned in 1596 (Wheatley).
A nag's head in stone on...
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New King's Head Court
In Houndsditch, in Portsoken Ward (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill
North out of Lombard Street, at No.72, to Cornhill at No. 18 (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill and Langb...
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Queen's Head Alley, Tavern
South out of Wormwood Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1720 and 1755).
The site...
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Saracen's Head Inn, Aldgate
On the south side of Aldgate. In Aldgate Ward (O. and M. 1677-Lockie, 1816).
A passage to Poor Jewr...
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Sersyns Head, Snow Hill
See Saracen's Head Inn.
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windmills in the head
Foolish projects.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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over head and ears
Completely overwhelmed. 'He sank over head and ears in the river;' 'He was over head and ears in deb...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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berthing of the head
See head-boards.
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captain of the head
Not a recognized rating, but an ordinary man appointed to attend to the swabs, and to keep the ship'...
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gratings of the head
See head-gratings.
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gun and head money
Given to the captors of an enemy's ship of war destroyed, or deserted, in fight. It was formerly ass...
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rails of the head
Curved pieces of timber extending from the bows on each side to the continuation of the ship's stem,...
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square in the head
Very bluff and broad in the fore-body.
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