hedge-laurel

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• Laurel

  ·noun A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; — especially in the plural; as, to win la...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• laurel

  n. The English tree name is applied in Australia to various trees, viz. – – Alexandrian Laurel – – ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Hedge

  ·vt To surround so as to prevent escape. II. Hedge ·vi To reduce the risk of a wager by making a be...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hedge

  To make a hedge; to secure a bet, or wager, laid on one side, by taking the odds on the other, so th...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Hedge

  The Hebrew words thus rendered denote simply that which surrounds or encloses, whether it be a stone...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• dodder laurel

  n. i.q. devil's guts (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• native laurel

  n. See laurel. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• hedge alehouse

  A small obscure alehouse. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge creeper

  A robber of hedges. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge priest

  An illiterate unbeneficed curate, a patrico. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hedge whore

  An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios and bawdy-houses, by disposing of her favours on the ways...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ryzen-hedge

  a fence of stakes and boughs. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• winter-hedge

  a wooden frame (called also a CLOTHES-HORSE) for dry ing linen by the fire. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• moreton-bay laurel

  n. See laurel. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris