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flat pea
n.
a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae.
1793. `Transactions of Li...
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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.
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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;
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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.
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Flat-headed
·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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