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Bush
·noun The tail, or brush, of a fox.
II. Bush ·vi To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
III. B...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bush
In which Jehovah appeared to Moses in the wilderness (Ex. 3:2; Acts 7:30). It is difficult to say wh...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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bush
I.
n.
Not originally an Australianapplication. «Recent, and probably a direct adoption of theDutch...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bush
I.
, or bouche
A circular shouldered piece of metal, usually of brass, let into the lignum vitæ ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bush
The Hebrew word seneh occurs only in those passages which refer to Jehovah's appearance to Moses "in...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Blue
·noun A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
II. Blue ·pl Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy....
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Blue
Generally associated with purple (Ex. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtaine...
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blue
To look blue; to be confounded, terrified, or disappointed. Blue as a razor; perhaps, blue as azure....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue
1) Gloomy, severe; extreme, ultra.
In the former sense it is applied especially to the Presbyterian...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue
♦ Till all's blue: carried to the utmost a phrase borrowed from the idea of a vessel making out of p...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bramble bush
·- The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
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Caper bush
·- ·Alt. of Caper tree.
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Creosote bush
·add. ·- A shrub (Covillea mexicana) found in desert regions from Colorado to California and southwa...
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Poison bush
·add. ·- The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or dogwood poison...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bush Lane
South out of Cannon Street, at No. 86, to 157 Upper Thames St. (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook and Dow...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Mourning Bush
See Fountain Tavern1, Aldersgate.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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ivy bush
Like an owl in an ivy bush; a simile for a meagre or weasel-faced man, with a large wig, or very bus...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bush-faller
n.
one who cuts down timber in thebush.
1882. `Pall Mall Gazette,' June 29, p. 2, col. 1:
«A brok...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bush-fire
n.
forests and grass on fire in hotsummers.
1868. C. Dilke, `Greater Britain,' vol. ii. part iii. ...
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bush-lawyer
n.
1) A Bramble.See Lawyer.
2) Name often used for a layman who fancies he knows all aboutthe law ...
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bush-magpie
n.
an Australian bird, morecommonly called a Magpie (q.v.).
1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australas...
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bush-ranging
n.
the practice of the Bushranger (q.v.).
1827. `Captain Robinson's Report,' Dec. 23
«It was a su...
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bush-scrubber
n.
a bushman's word for a boor,bumpkin, or slatternly person. See Scrubber.
1896. Modern. Up-count...
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bush-telegraph
n.
Confederates of bushrangerswho supply them with secret information of the movements of thepolice...
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bush-wren
n.
See wren.
1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 108:
[A full description.]
...
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cattle-bush
n.
a tree, Atalayahemiglauca, F. v. M., N.O. Sapindacea.It is found in South Australia, New South W...
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christmas-bush
n.
an Australian tree, Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Smith, N.O. Saxifrageae. Called also Christmas-tre...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cockatoo bush
n.
i.q. native currant (q.v).
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coffee-bush
n. a settlers' name for the NewZealand tree the Karamu (q.v.). Sometimes called also Coffee-plant.
...
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cotton-bush
n.
name applied to two treescalled Salt-bush (q.v.). (1) Bassia bicornis,Lindl. (2) Kochia aphylla,...
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emu-bush
n.
an Australian shrub, Eremophilalongifolia, F. v. M., N.O. Myoporineae.
1875. T. Laslett, `Timbe...
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flax-bush
n.
the bush of the New ZealandFlax.
1854. W. Golder, `Pigeons' Parliament,' Intro. p. v:
«I had ....
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hemp-bush
n.
the plant Plagianthuspulchellus, A. Gray, N.O. Halvaceae, native of Australiaand New Zealand. Th...
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hop-bush
n.
«the name for all species of Dodonaea» (Maiden, p. 417), N.O. Sapindaceae.
1883. F. M. Bailey, ...
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milk-bush
n.
a tall Queensland shrub, Wrightia saligna, F. v. M., N.O. Apocyneae;it is said to be most valuab...
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needle-bush
n.
name applied to two Australiantrees, Hakea leucoptera, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae;called also Pin-b...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pin-bush
n.
i.q. Needle-bush (q.v.)
...
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poison-bush
n.
name given to a genus of poisonous Australian shrubs, Gastrolobium (q.v.).
Out of the thirty-th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rose-bush
a timber-tree, Eupomatia laurina,R. Br., N.O. Anonaceae.
...
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saloop-bush
n.
name given to an erectsoft-stemmed bush, Rhagodia hastata, R. Br., N.O. Salsolaceae, one of the ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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salt-bush
n. and adj.
the wild alkalineherb or shrub, growing on the interior plains of Australia,on which ho...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sandfly-bush
n. Australian namefor the indigenous tree Zieria smithii, Andr., N.O. Rutaceae. Called also Turmeric...
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twine bush
n.
i.q. Hakea flexilis.See Hakea.
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umbrella-bush
Acacia osswaldi, F. v. M., N.O. Leguminosae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 363:
«...
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wallaby-bush
n.
a tall shrub or tree, Beyeria viscosa, Miq., N.O. Euphorbiaceae.Same as the Pinkwood of Tasmania...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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button bush
(Cephalanthus occidentalis.) A shrub which grows along the water side, its insulated thickets furnis...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fever bush
(Laurus benzoin.) An aromatic shrub with a flavor resembling Benzoin.--Bigelow's Flora Bostoniensis....
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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shag-bush
An old term for a harquebus, or hand-gun.
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Blue bonnet
·noun ·Alt. of Blue-bonnet.
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Blue book
·- The United States official "Biennial Register.".
II. Blue book ·- A parliamentary publication, s...
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Blue grass
·- A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire...
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Blue jay
·- The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is ...
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Blue-bonnet
·noun A plant. ·same·as <<Bluebottle>>.
II. Blue-bonnet ·noun The European blue titmouse (Parus coe...
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Blue-eye
·noun The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
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Blue-eyed
·adj Having blue eyes.
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Blue-john
·noun A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
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Blue-skylaw
·add. ·- A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in orde...
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Blue-veined
·adj Having blue veins or blue streaks.
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Navy blue
·add. ·- Prussian blue.
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Sanders-blue
·noun ·see Saunders-blue.
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Saunders-blue
·noun A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from c...
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Sevres blue
·- A very light blue.
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Sky-blue
·adj Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.
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Smalt-blue
·adj Deep blue, like smalt.
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True-blue
·noun A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
II. True-blue ·adj Of inflexible honesty and fi...
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Turnbull's blue
·- The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery l...
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Blue Anchor
Strype says that the part of Houndsditch in Bishopsgate Ward Without extends to the Blue Anchor (Str...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Bell
In Bread Street, in Bread Street Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
"Blew Bell," in Cheapsyde me...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Blue Boar
On the east side of Fish Street Hill, adjoining King's Head Court.
It was so called before the Fire...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Gates
1) West out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
The site is now occu...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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blue boar
A venereal bubo.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue devils
Low spirits.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue flag
He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue pigeons
Thieves who steal lead off houses and churches. Cant. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off houses...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue plumb
A bullet.--Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R--'s blue plumb...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue skin
A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blue tape, or sky blue
Gin.
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blue ruin
Gin. Blue ribband; gin.
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blue-cod
n.
name given to a New Zealand fish, Percis colias, family Trachinidae. Called alsoin New Zealand R...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-creeper
n.
name given to the creeper, Comesperma volubile, Lab., N.O. Campanulaceae.
...
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blue-eye
n.
a bird name. The Blue facedHoney-eater (q.v.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-fish
n.
name given in Sydney to Girella cyanea, of the family Sparidae, orSea-Breams. It is different fr...
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blue-groper
n.
a fish of New South Wales and Tasmania, Cossyphus gouldii, one of the Labridaeor Wrasses, often ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-gum
n.
See under gum. It is anincreasing practice to make a single word of this compound, andto pronoun...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-head
n.
Tasmanian name for the fishcalled the blue-groper (q.v.)
...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue lobelia
n.
The indigenous species inTasmania which receives this name is Lobelia gibbosa,Lab., N.O. Campanu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-pointer
n.
a name given in New South Wales to a species of Shark, Lamna glauca, Mull. and Heule, family Lam...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue-wing
n.
a sportsman's name (as in England)for the bird called the Shoveller (q.v.).
...
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blue-berry
(Vacinium tenellum.) A fruit resembling the whortleberry in appearance and taste.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-book
A printed book containing the names of all the persons holding office under the Government of the Un...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-nose
The slang name for a native of Nova Scotia.
"Pray, sir," said one of my fellow passengers, "can you...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-skins
A nickname applied to the Presbyterians, from their alleged grave deportment.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue devils
To have the blue devils is to be dispirited.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue laws
"Where, and how, the story of the New Haven Blue Laws originated, is a matter of some curiosity. Acc...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue stocking
1) The American avoset (recurvirostra Americana). A common bird in the Northern States.--Nat. Hist. ...
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blue-jackets
The seamen as distinguished from the marines.
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blue light
A pyrotechnical preparation for signals by night. Also called Bengal light.
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blue-lightism
Affected sanctimoniousness.
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blue moon
An indefinite period.
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blue-nose
A general term for a native of Nova Scotia.
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blue peter
The signal for sailing when hoisted at the fore-topmast head; this well-known flag has a blue ground...
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blue pigeon
A nickname for the sounding lead.
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blue water
The open ocean.
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true-blue
A metaphorical term for an honest and hearty sailor: "true to his uniform, and uniformly true."
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Great Bush Lane
See Bush Lane.
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Little Bush Lane
North out of Upper Thames Street, at 155, to Bush Lane. In Dowgate Ward (P.O. Directory).
First men...
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dogwood poison-bush
n.
a New South Wales name;the same as Ellangowan Poison-bush (q.v.).
...
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ellangowan poison-bush
n.
a Queensland namefor Myoporum deserti, Cunn., N.O. Myoporinae,;called «Dogwood Poison-bush» in N...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Blue Hen State
·add. ·- The State of Delaware;
— a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to...
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Blue-eyed grass
·- a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
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Blue-grass State
·add. ·- The Sate of Kentucky;
— a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses ar...
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Blue Anchor Alley
1) In Great Minories (Dodsley, 1761).
Not further identified.
2) In St. Katherine's precinct (Dods...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Anchor Court
In Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Blue Anchor Inn
On the south-west side of Duck Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without, at the Corner of Little Britain (O....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Anchor Yard
West out of Coleman Street at No. 1 and north to London Wall. In Coleman Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-E...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Ball Court
1) In Cannon Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps
2) East out of Dorset St...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Boar Court
1) See Prince's Street, Rosemary Lane.
2) South out of Chick Lane and west to Hide's Rents, in Farr...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Bore Inn
North out of Aldgate High Street at No.30 (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1848-51). In Portsoken Ward.
"Blue B...
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Blue Coat Buildings
See King Edward Street.
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Blue Hart Court
West out of Little Bell Alley to Little Swan Alley. In Coleman Street Ward (Strype, ed. 1720-O.S. 18...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Lion Court
East out of Aldersgate Street at No. 24, in Aldersgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
First mention...
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blue-tongued lizard
n.
name given to Tiliqua nigroluteus, Gray, a common Australian andTasmanian lizard belonging to th...
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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old-man salt-bush
Atriplex nummularium,Lindl. See Salt-Bush.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 118:
«On...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Blue Bell Inn, Holborn
See Old Bell Inn.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Boar Stable Yard
West out of Little Moorfields. In Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
The site is now covered ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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admiral of the blue
who carries his flag on the main-mast. A landlord or publican wearing a blue apron, as was formerly ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to look blue at one
is to look at one with a countenance expressive of displeasure or dissatisfaction.
The Bishop would...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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false fire, blue flames
A composition of combustibles filled into a wooden tube, which, upon being set fire to, burns with a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bush Alley, Upper East Smithfield
See Brush Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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owl in an ivy bush
He looks like an owl in an ivy bush; frequently said of a person with a large frizzled wig, or a wom...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Blue Anchor Alley, Rosemary Lane
See Crown and Shears Place and Red Gate Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Anchor Yard, Alley, Tower Hill
See Baily Place.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.