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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
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Cane
·vt To beat with a cane.
II. Cane ·noun A lance or dart made of cane.
III. Cane ·vt To make or fur...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cane
A tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places. In Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20, the Hebrew...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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cane
To lay Cane upon Abel; to beat any one with a cane or stick.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cane
The rattan (Calamus rudentum), is extensively used in the East for rigging, rope, and cables. The la...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Lawyer
·noun The bowfin (Amia calva).
II. Lawyer ·noun The burbot (Lota maculosa).
III. Lawyer ·noun The ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lawyer
Among the Jews, was one versed in the laws of Moses, which he expounded in the schools and synagogue...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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lawyer
n.
One of the English provincial usesof this word is for a thorny stem of a briar or bramble. InNew...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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lawyer
(Himantonus. Black-necked Stilt. Audubon, Ornith.) A small bird which lives on our shores; known als...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Lawyer
The title "lawyer" is generally supposed to be equivalent to the title "scribe." The scribe expounde...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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 ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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cane-grass
n.
i.q. bamboo-grass (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cane-brake
A thicket of canes. They abound in the low lands of Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Penang lawyer
·add. ·- A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sea lawyer
·- The gray snapper. ·see under <<Snapper>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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 ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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lawyer-palm
See lawyer
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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lawyer-vine
See lawyer
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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vine, lawyer
See lawyer.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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lake lawyer
(Genus, amia. Linnæus.) The Western Mud-fish. It is found in Lakes Erie and Ontario, where it is kno...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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lake-lawyer
A voracious fish in the lakes of America, called also the mud-fish.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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penang lawyer
A cane, with the administration of which debts were wont to be settled at Pulo-Penang.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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philadelphia lawyer
"Enough to puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer" is a common nautical phrase for an inconsistent story.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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sea-lawyer
An idle litigious 'longshorer, more given to question orders than to obey them. One of the pests of ...
The Sailor's Word-Book