cat's eyes

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• eight eyes

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• glass eyes

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• bull's eyes

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• lashing-eyes

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• thimble-eyes

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• Cat's-eye

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• Cat's-foot

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• Cat's-paw

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• Cat's-tail

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• Kilkenny cats

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• Cat's Hole

  East out of Little Tower Hill to St. Katherine's New Court (Horwood, 1799, and Lockie, 1816). Earli...

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• cat's foot

  To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and ca...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat's paw

  To be made a cat's paw of; to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an ...

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• cat's sleep

  Counterfeit sleep: cats often counterfeiting sleep, to decoy their prey near them, and then suddenly...

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• cat's tail

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• cats-paw

  To be made a cats-paw of. To be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another; an a...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cats-foot

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• cat's-paw

  A light air perceived at a distance in a calm, by the impressions made on the surface of the sea, wh...

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• cat's-skin

  A light partial current of air, as with the cat's-paw. ...

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• cat's-tail

  The inner part of the cat-head, that fays down upon the cat-beam. ...

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• blind-your-eyes

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

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• eyes of her

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• cat's-head fern

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• cats t kerd

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• Covering of the eyes

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• eyes of a messenger

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• eyes of a ship

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• squaring the dead-eyes

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• grinagog, the cat's uncle

  A foolish grinning fellow, one who grins without reason. ...

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