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Dilly
·noun A kind of stagecoach.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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dilly
(An abbreviation of the word DILIGENCE.) A public voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise, carrying...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Bag
·vi To become pregnant.
II. Bag ·vi To swell with arrogance.
III. Bag ·noun The quantity of game b...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bag
1) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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bag
He gave them the bag, i.e. left them.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bag
A commercial term of quantity; as, a bread or biscuit bag, a sand-bag, &c. An empty purse.
♦ To ba...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bag
is the rendering of several words in the Old and New Testaments.
• Charitim, the "bags" in which Na...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Dilly-dally
·vi To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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to dilly-dally
To delay. A colloquial expression common in the United States.
The note this verra morning shall ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dilly-wreck
A common corruption of derelict (which see).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bag net
·- A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ditty-bag
·noun A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, ·etc.;
— also called sailor's housewife.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Duffel bag
·add. ·- A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Farding-bag
·noun The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Honey-bag
·noun The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Telescope bag
·add. ·- An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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green bag
An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they h...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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louse bag
A black bag worn to the hair or wig.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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nose bag
A bag fastened to the horse's head, in which the soldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shag-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shake-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chewgah-bag
n.
Queensland aboriginalpigeon-English for Sugar-bag (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sugar-bag
n.
nest of honey, and the honey.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 67:
«Th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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badger-bag
The fictitious Neptune who visits the ship on her crossing the line.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bag, the
Allowed for the men to keep their clothes in. The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-toke...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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bag-reef
A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy.
♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ditty-bag
Derives its name from the dittis or Manchester stuff of which it was once made. It is in use among s...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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fernan bag
A small ditty-bag, often worn by sailors, for holding tobacco and other things. They have applied th...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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lull-bag
A wide canvas hose in whalers for conducting blubber into the casks, as it is "made off."
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bag of nails
He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bag and baggage
The whole movable property.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bag, of the head-rails
The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail.
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The Sailor's Word-Book