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• Cape

  ·vi To <<Gape>>. II. Cape ·vi To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by s...

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• cape

  A projecting point of land jutting out from the coast-line; the extremity of a promontory, of which ...

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• Weed

  ·noun Tobacco, or a cigar. II. Weed ·noun Underbrush; low shrubs. III. Weed ·noun An animal unfit ...

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• to weed

  To take a part. The kiddey weeded the swell's screens; the youth took some of the gentleman's bank n...

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• weed

  A common term for tobacco; as, 'Do you use the weed? meaning, 'Do you chew tobacco?' Those who were...

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• Inverness cape

  ·add. ·- A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck. ...

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• cape lilac

  n. See lilac. ...

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• cape, to

  To keep a course. How does she cape? how does she lie her course? ...

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• cape-hen

  See molly-mawk. ...

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• cape-merchant

  [capo]. An old name for super-cargo in early voyages, as also the head merchant in a factory. ...

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• cape-petrel

  See cape-pigeon ...

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• cape-pigeon

  , or cape-petrel A sea-bird which follows a ship in her passage round the cape; the Procellaria ca...

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• Bishop's-weed

  ·noun Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria). II. Bishop's-weed ·noun An umbelliferous plant of the genus...

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• Jamestown weed

  ·- The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamesto...

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• Jimson weed

  ·- ·see Jamestown weed. ...

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• Orchilla weed

  ·- The lichen from which archil is obtained. ·see <<Archil>>. ...

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• Willow-weed

  ·noun Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage. II. Willow-weed ·noun A European species of lo...

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• Yaw-weed

  ·noun A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies...

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• neck weed

  Hemp. ...

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• sot weed

  Tobacco. ...

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• sida-weed

  n. i.q. Queensland Hemp.See Hemp. ...

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• sneeze-weed

  Myriogyne minuta, Less., Cotula or Centipeda cunninghamii, De C.,and many other botanical synonyms. ...

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• bugle-weed

  (Lycopus Virginicus.) A plant which has much reputation for its medicinal properties. It is also kno...

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• carpet weed

  A small spreading plant, common in cultivated ground (molugo).--Bigelow's Plants of Boston. ...

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• poke-weed

  POKE (Lat. phytolacca.) A common plant, known also by the names of Garget, Cocum, Jalap, &c. It is ...

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• squaw-weed

  (Lat. senecio obovatus.) A medicinal plant used for diseases of the skin. ...

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• thimble weed

  (Lat. Rudbeckia.) A tall plant six or eight feet high, resembling the sunflower. It is one of the he...

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• ore-weed

  sea-weed, or sea-wrac, used for manuring land. S. and W. ...

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• gulf-weed

  The Fucus natans, considered to belong to the Gulf Stream, and found floating in the Sargasso Sea in...

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• weed, to

  To clear the rigging of stops, rope-yarns, and pieces of oakum. ...

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• cape-barren goose

  n. See goose. 1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 114,[Footnote]: «The `Cape B...

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• cape-barren tea

  n. a shrub or tree, Correaalba, Andr., N.O. Rutaceae. 1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 1...

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• cape fly-away

  A cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances. (See fog.) ...

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• doubling a cape

  In navigation, is to sail round or pass beyond it, so that the point of land separates the ship from...

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• Joe-Pye weed

  ·- A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled...

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• weather the cape, to

  To become experienced; as it implies sailing round Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope. ...

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