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Coffee
·noun The coffee tree.
II. Coffee ·noun The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.
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Plant
·noun The sole of the foot.
II. Plant ·noun A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
III. Plant ·n...
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plant
The place in the house of the fence where stolen goods are secreted. Any place where stolen goods ar...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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plant
v. tr. and n.
common in Australiafor to hide, and for the thing hidden away. As remarkedin the quot...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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plant
A stock of tools, &c. Also, the fixtures, machinery, &c., required to carry on a business.
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coffee house
A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend nothing.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coffee berry
See coffee plant
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Air plant
·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>.
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Dove plant
·- A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with nu...
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Flax-plant
·noun A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two in...
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Host plant
·add. ·- A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are u...
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Ice plant
·- A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten ...
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Plant-cane
·noun A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second ...
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Plant-eating
·adj Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
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Telegraph plant
·add. ·- An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like...
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Water plant
·- A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
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Wind-plant
·noun A <<Windflower>>.
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butterfly-plant
n.
a small flowering plant, Utricularia dichotoma, Lab., N.O. Leutibularina.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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caustic-plant
or Caustic-Vine
,n.
Sarcostemma australis, R. Br., N.O.Asclepiadea. Cattle and sheep are poisoned ...
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guitar plant
a Tasmanian shrub, Lomatiatinctoria, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae.
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honey-plant
n.
name given in Tasmania to Richea scoparia Hook., N.O. Epacris.
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ice-plant
n.
Tasmanian name for Tetragoniaimplexicoma, Hook., N.O. Ficoideae, B. Fl. Variousspecies of Tetrag...
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ink-plant
n.
another name for the «toot,» a New Zealand shrub, Coriaria thymifolia, N.O.Coriarieae. Called In...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jelly-plant
a sea-weed, Eucheuma speciosum,J. Agardh, N.O. Algae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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milk-plant
n.
i.q. Caustic Creeper (q.v.).
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officer plant
n.
another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...
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pea-plant
n.
The term is applied sometimes toany one of various Australian plants of the N.O. Leguminosae.
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plant-caterpillar
n.
name given in Australasiato species of caterpillars which are attacked by spores ofcertain fungi...
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trigger-plant
n.
i.q. Hairtrigger (q.v.) plant; called also Jack-in-a-box.
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Coffee House Alley
South out of Upper Thames Street, at No. 56 (Rocque, 1746-L.C.C. List, 1912).
In Queenhithe Ward, n...
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Coffee House Court
In Moorfields (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Jamaica Coffee House
In St. Michael's Alley on the east side, next the Church Tower, 1863.
Built over the south cloister...
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Jerusalem Coffee-House
In Cowper's Court, Cornhill. For merchants trading to the East Indies, China and Australia. Taken do...
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London Coffee House
On the north side of Ludgate Hill at No. 42, west of St. Martin, Ludgate, in Farringdon Ward Without...
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Smither's Coffee House
A Court so called north out of Thames Street with a passage east to Water Lane. In Tower Ward (Stryp...
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russian coffee-house
The Brown Bear in Bow-street, Covent Garden, a house of call for thief-takers and runners of the Bow...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird-catching plant
n.
a New Zealand shrub ortree, Pisonia brunoniana, Endl., N.O. Nyctagineae; Maori name, Parapara.
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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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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose