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• Prickly

  ·adj Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Moses

  Mōses or Moȳses, is or i, m. (in Vulg. nom. semper Moȳses; gen. Moȳsi, Lev. 8, 36; 16, 34; Num. 3,...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• Moses

  ·noun A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Moses

  taken out; drawn forth ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• Moses

  Drawn (or Egypt. mesu, "son;" hence Rameses, royal son). On the invitation of Pharaoh (Gen. 45:17-25...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• moses

  To stand Moses: a man is said to stand Moses when he has another man's bastard child fathered upon h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• moses

  A flat-bottomed boat used in the West Indies for bringing off hogsheads of sugar; it is termed singl...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Moses

  (Heb. Mosheh, "drawn," i.e. from the water; in the Coptic it means "saved from the water"), the legi...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• prickly fern

  n. Alsophila australis,R. Br., N.O. Filices. 1862. W. Archer, `Products of Tasmania,' p. 41: «Pri...

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

• prickly mimosa

  n. See mimosa and moses, prickly, under moses. 1835. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 6: Acacia v...

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

• prickly pine

  n. See pine. ...

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

• prickly wattle

  n. See wattle. ...

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

• (St.) Margaret Moses

  On the east side of Friday Street at its junction with Little Friday Street (Pissinge alley) (Leake,...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Moses' Court

  See Mosley's Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• moses' law

  The term among pirates for inflicting thirty-nine lashes on the bare back forty save one. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Law of Moses

  Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Ark Of Moses

  A small boat or basket made of the papyrus, a reed which grows in the marshes of Egypt. It was cover...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Law Of Moses

  It will be the object of this article to give a brief analysis of the substance of this law, to poin...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary