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• pea, flat

  n. See flat pea. ...

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• Pea

  ·noun ·see <<Peak>>, ·noun, 3. II. Pea ·noun The sliding weight on a steelyard. III. Pea ·noun A p...

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• Flat

  ·vi To fall form the pitch. II. Flat ·noun A homaloid space or extension. III. Flat ·noun Somethin...

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• flat

  A bubble, gull, or silly fellow. ...

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• flat

  1) In cant language, a foolish fellow; a simpleton.--Worcester. The London Times, of Sept. 5, 1847,...

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• flat

  In ship-building, a straight part in a curve. In hydrography, a shallow over which the tide flows, a...

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• Angola pea

  ·- A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; — so called from Angola...

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• Chick-pea

  ·noun A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich...

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• Cich-pea

  ·noun The chick-pea. ...

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• Pea-jacket

  ·noun A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather. ...

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• coral pea

  n. another name for the Kennedya (q.v.). 1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53: «The trailing sc...

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• darling pea

  n. an Australian plant, Swainsonia galegifolia, R. Br., N.O. Leguminosae;i.q. Indigo Plant (q.v.). ...

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• glory pea

  See glory flower i.q. clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• heart-pea

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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• pea, coral

  n. See coral pea. ...

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• pea, darling

  n. See darling pea. ...

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• pea, desert

  n. See Sturt's Desert Pea. ...

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• pea, glory

  n. another namefor the Clianthus (q.v.). ...

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• pea, heart

  n. i.q. balloon-vine (q.v.). ...

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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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• pea-nut

  The common name for the fruit of the arachis hypogea. It is also called the ground nut and earth nut...

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• pea-ballast

  A coarse fresh-water sand used by ships in the China trade for stowing tea-chests upon. ...

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• pea or p.-jacket

  A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth. ...

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• Alkali flat

  ·add. ·- A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an ...

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• Flat foot

  ·- A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upo...

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• Flat-bottomed

  ·adj Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat. ...

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• Flat-cap

  ·noun A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London aft...

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• Flat-footed

  ·adj Firm-footed; determined. II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of th...

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• Flat-headed

  ·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail. ...

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• flat cock

  A female. ...

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• to flat out

  To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...

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• flat-footed

  Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...

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• dead-flat

  The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...

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• flat-aback

  When all the sails are blown with their after-surface against the mast, so as to give stern-way. ...

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• flat-aft

  The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...

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• flat-bottomed

  When a vessel's lower frame has but little upward inclination. ...

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• flat calm

  When there is no perceptible wind at sea. ...

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• flat-fish

  The Pleuronectidæ, a family of fishes containing the soles, flounders, turbots, &c., remarkable for ...

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• flat-nails

  Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...

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• flat seam

  The two edges or selvedges of canvas laid over each other and sewed down. ...

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• flat seizing

  This is passed on a rope, the same as a round seizing, but it has no riding turns. ...

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• sturt's desert pea

  n. a beautiful creeper, Clianthus dampieri, Cunn., N.O. Leguminosae,which will only grow in very dr...

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