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• Shark

  ·vi To live by shifts and stratagems. II. Shark ·vt To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly....

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• shark

  A sharper: perhaps from his preying upon any one he can lay hold of. Also a custom-house officer, or...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• shark

  n. Some of the Australasian speciesare identical with those of Europe. Varieties and nameswhich dif...

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

• shark

  A name applied to many species of large cartilaginous fish of the family Squalidæ. Their ferocity an...

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• Blind

  ·noun A halting place. II. Blind ·adj Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. III. Blind ·n...

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• Blind

  Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be tre...

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• blind

  A feint, pretence, or shift. ...

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• blind

  I. A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus). ...

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• Basking shark

  ·- One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in...

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• sand shark

  See blind shark ...

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• carpet-shark

  n. i.q. wobbegong (q.v.) ...

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• basking shark

  So called from being often seen lying still in the sunshine. A large cartilaginous fish, the Squalus...

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• jack-shark

  A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe. ...

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• johnny shark

  A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe. ...

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• Blind reader

  ·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. ...

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• Color-blind

  ·adj Affected with color blindness. ·see Color blindness, under Color, ·noun. ...

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• Hoodman-blind

  ·noun An old term for blindman's buff. ...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Snow-blind

  ·adj Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. ...

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• Star-blind

  ·adj Half blind. ...

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• Stock-blind

  ·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind. ...

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• Stone-blind

  ·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind. ...

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• Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel

  (fl. 1470-1492) Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Blind, Mathilde

  (1841-1896) Poetess, b. at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and pub. several books of po...

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• blind cheeks

  The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se. ...

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• blind excuse

  A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or fre...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind harpers

  Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c. ...

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• blind cupid

  The backside. ...

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• blind-worm

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

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• blind-bucklers

  Those fitted for the hawse-holes, which have no aperture for the cable, and therefore used at sea to...

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• blind-harbour

  One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived. ...

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• blind-rock

  One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms. ...

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• blind-shell

  One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...

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• blind-stakes

  A sort of river-weir. ...

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• bull-dog shark

  i.q. bull-head1 (q.v.). ...

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• Port-Jackson Shark

  Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder. 1882. Rev. J....

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• hammer-headed shark

  The Zygæna malleus, a strange, ugly shark. The eyes are situated at the extremities of the hammer-sh...

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• Blind Chapel Court

  See Blanch Appleton Court. ...

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• cupid, blind cupid

  A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind. See b...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind-your-eyes

  n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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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...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.