coffee-bush

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• Coffee

  ·noun The coffee tree. II. Coffee ·noun The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry. III. ...

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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...

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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

• 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

• bush

  I. , or bouche A circular shouldered piece of metal, usually of brass, let into the lignum vitæ ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bush

  The Hebrew word seneh occurs only in those passages which refer to Jehovah's appearance to Moses "in...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• coffee house

  A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend nothing. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• coffee berry

  See coffee plant ...

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• coffee plant

  or Coffee Berry n. namegiven in Tasmania to the Tasmanian Native Holly (q.v.). ...

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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

• 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.

• The Mourning Bush

  See Fountain Tavern1, Aldersgate. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• 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

• blue-bush

  n. an Australian forage plant,a kind of Salt-bush, Kochia pyrainidata, Benth, N.O. Chenopodiaceae. ...

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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...

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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...

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• cockatoo bush

  n. i.q. native currant (q.v). ...

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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...

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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

• 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

• salt-bush

  n. and adj. the wild alkalineherb or shrub, growing on the interior plains of Australia,on which ho...

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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...

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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.

• 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.

• shag-bush

  An old term for a harquebus, or hand-gun. ...

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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...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• 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...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• London Coffee House

  On the north side of Ludgate Hill at No. 42, west of St. Martin, Ludgate, in Farringdon Ward Without...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• 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

• 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...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• 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

• Baptist Head Coffee House

  In Fountain Court, Aldermanbury (Lockie, 1810). The former site of this house, at the corner of Ald...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• old-man salt-bush

  Atriplex nummularium,Lindl. See Salt-Bush. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 118: «On...

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• Bush Alley, Upper East Smithfield

  See Brush Court. ...

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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

• 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