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Belly
·noun The <<Womb>>.
II. Belly ·vt To cause to swell out; to <<Fill>>.
III. Belly ·noun The under p...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Belly
The seat of the carnal affections (Titus 1:12; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 16:18). The word is used symbolicall...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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belly
His eye was bigger than his belly; a saying of a person at a table, who takes more on his plate than...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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belly
The swell of a sail. The inner or hollow part of compass timber; the outside is called the back. To ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Silver
·adj Precious; costly.
II. Silver ·adj Resembling silver.
III. Silver ·noun The color of silver.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Silver
Used for a great variety of purposes, as may be judged from the frequent references to it in Scriptu...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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silver
or Silver-fish
n.
a Tasmanian name for Caranx georgianus, Cuv. and Val., family Carangidae, the Wh...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Silver
In very early times silver was used for ornaments, (Genesis 24:53) and for vessels of various kinds....
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Belly-god
·noun One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an <<Epicure>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Belly-pinched
·adj Pinched with hunger; starved.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Gor-belly
·noun A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pot-belly
·noun A protuberant belly.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Speckled-belly
·noun The <<Gadwall>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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belly cheat
An apron.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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belly plea
The plea of pregnancy, generally adduced by female felons capitally convicted, which they take care ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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belly timber
Food of all sorts.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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yellow belly
A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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yellow-belly
n.
In New South Wales, the nameis given to a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus;called also Golde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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belly-wark
the gripes. N. They also say TOOTH-WARK, and HEAD-WARK.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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yellow belly
a person born in the Fens of Lincolnshire. L.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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belly-band
A strip of canvas, half way between the close-reef and the foot of square sails, to strengthen them....
The Sailor's Word-Book
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belly-guy
A tackle applied half-way up sheers, or long spars that require support in the middle. Frequently ap...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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belly-mat
See paunch-mat.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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belly-stay
Used half-mast down when a mast requires support; as belly-guy, above.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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yellow-belly
A name given to a person born in the fens along our eastern shores: also occasionally to half-castes...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ale silver
·- A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cat-silver
·noun <<Mica>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Free silver
·add. ·- The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio wit...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Rep-silver
·noun Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of rea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Silver certificate
·add. ·- A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a spec...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Silver State
·add. ·- Nevada;
— a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Silver-gray
·adj Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Shrines, Silver
Little models and medallions of the temple and image of Diana of Ephesus (Acts 19:24). The manufactu...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Silver Street
West from Wood Street at No. 8i into Falcon Square (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Within and ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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silver laced
Replete with lice. The cove's kickseys are silver laced: the fellow's breeches are covered with lice...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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silver-fish
See silver
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver-bream
or White-Bream
n.
a New South Wales fish, Gerres ovatus, Gunth.,family Percidae; also called Silve...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver-eye
n.
a bird-name. Same as Wax-eye, White-eye, or Blight-bird (q.v.).
1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of N...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver-perch
n.
a fresh-water fish,i.q. Bidyan Ruffe (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver-tail
n.
a bush term for a «swell» :a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut.See Hut.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver-trevally
n.
See trevally.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver fox
A black fox, with white king-hairs interspersed on the back of it.--Cartwright's Labrador. Like the ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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silver-cædua
A statute term for wood under twenty years' growth.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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silver-oar
One of the badges of the civil court afloat, conferring the power to arrest for debt if not less tha...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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silver-thaw
The term for ice falling in large flakes from the sails and rigging, consequent on a frost followed ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whip-belly vengeance
or pinch-gut vengeance, of which he that gets the most has the worst share. Weak or sour beer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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(St.) Matthew Silver Street
Mentioned in Fabyan's Chronicle.
See St. Olave Silver Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Olave Silver Street
On the south side of Silver Street at its junction with Noble Street and Falcon Square. In Cripplega...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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silver jew-fish
n.
a New South Wales name forthe young of the fish called Teraglin, or of the true Jew-fish (q.v.);...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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silver-leaf boree
n.
i.q. boree (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Piece Of Silver
I. In the Old Testament the word "pieces" is used in the Authorized Version for a word understood in...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Gold and Silver Wiredrawers
Incorporated 1623.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Olave Silver Street Churchyard
On the south side of Silver Street at its junction with Monkwell Street (Rocque, 1746).
It still oc...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Silver Street, Bouverie Street
See Pleydell Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Silver Street, Bridgewater Square
East out of Charles Street to Collier's Court, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-O.S. 1880)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dudley Court, Silver Street, Cripplegate
See Red Lion Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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born with a silver spoon in his mouth
To inherit a fortune by birth.
Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says
She was one of th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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born with a silver spoon in his mouth
Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...
The Sailor's Word-Book