spine-bill

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• Spine

  ·noun A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn. II. Spine ·noun One of the rigid and undivided ...

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• Bill

  ·noun A pickax, or mattock. II. Bill ·noun One who wields a bill; a billman. III. Bill ·noun The b...

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• bill

  A weapon or implement of war, a pike or halbert of the English infantry. It was formerly carried by ...

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• Spine-finned

  ·adj Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; — said of certain fishes. ...

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• Spine-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. ...

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• Bank bill

  ·- In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand...

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• Bill book

  ·- A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, ·etc., thus sho...

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• Bill broker

  ·- One who negotiates the discount of bills. ...

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• Bill holder

  ·- A person who holds a bill or acceptance. II. Bill holder ·- A device by means of which bills, ·e...

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• Brown bill

  ·- A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. ·see 4th Bill. ...

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• Crane's-bill

  ·noun A pair of long-beaked forceps. II. Crane's-bill ·noun The geranium; — so named from the long...

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• Duck's-bill

  ·adj Having the form of a duck's bill. ...

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• Hedging bill

  ·- A hedge bill. ·see under <<Hedge>>. ...

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• Ivory-bill

  ·noun A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp,...

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• Parrot's-bill

  ·noun The glory pea. ·see under <<Glory>>. ...

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• Ripper bill

  ·add. ·- An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of...

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• Speckled-bill

  ·noun The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons). ...

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• Bill Alley

  See Billet Court. ...

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• apothecary's bill

  A long bill. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• channel-bill

  n. name given to a birdresembling a large cuckoo, Scythrops novae-hollandiae,Lath. See Scythrops. ...

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• kaka-bill

  n. a New Zealand plant, the Clianthus (q.v.), so called from the supposedresemblance of the flower ...

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• parrot-bill

  n. See kaka-bill. ...

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• red-bill

  n. bird-name given to Estrelda temporalis, Lath. It is also appliedto the Oyster-catchers (q.v.); a...

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• wedge-bill

  n. an Australian bird. ThisEnglish name for a species of humming-bird is applied inAustralia to Sph...

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• bank-bill

  A bank-note. Neither Johnson nor the other lexicographers have the term bank-note, though they all ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cranes-bill

  (Geranium maculatum.) The popular name of a native geranium, which grows about fences and the edges ...

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• way-bill

  A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance. ...

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• stock's-bill

  geranium Robertianum. N. ...

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• bill-boards

  Doubling under the fore-channels to the water-line, to protect the planking from the bill of the anc...

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• bill-fish

  See gar-fish. ...

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• bill-hook

  A species of hatchet used in wooding a ship, similar to that used by hedgers. ...

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• brown bill

  The old weapon of the English infantry: hence, perhaps the expression "Brown Bess" for a musket. ...

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• butcher's bill

  A nickname for the official return of killed and wounded which follows an action. ...

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• clean bill

  (See bill of health.) When all are in health. ...

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• cock-bill

  The situation of the anchor when suspended from the cat-head ready for letting go. Also said of a ca...

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• fire-bill

  The distribution of the officers and crew in case of the alarm of fire, a calamity requiring judicio...

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• foul bill

  See bill of health. ...

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• hawk's-bill

  ♦ Chelone imbricata, a well-known turtle frequenting the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, so named from h...

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• quarter-bill

  A list containing the different stations to which the officers and crew are quartered in time of act...

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• quarterly bill

  The document by which officers draw three months' personal pay. ...

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• razor-bill

  A sea-fowl allied to the auks, Alca torda. ...

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• saw-bill

  A name for the goosander, Mergus merganser. ...

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• station-bill

  A list containing the appointed posts of the crew when performing any evolution but action. ...

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• victualling-bill

  A custom-house document, warranting the shipment of such bonded stores as the master of an outward-b...

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• watch-bill

  The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...

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• bill at sight

  To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all times for the venereal act. ...

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• bill of sale

  A widow's weeds. See house to let. ...

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• bill of exchange

  A means of remitting money from one country to another. The receiver must present it for acceptance ...

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• bill of freedom

  A full pass for a neutral in time of war. ...

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• bill of health

  A certificate properly authenticated by the consul, or other proper authority at any port, that the ...

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• bill of lading

  A memorandum by which the master of a ship acknowledges the receipt of the goods specified therein, ...

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• bill of sale

  A written document by which the property of a vessel, or shares thereof, are transferred to a purcha...

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• bill of view

  See bill of sight ...

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• bill of sight

  , or bill of view A warrant for a custom-house officer to examine goods which had been shipped for...

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• bill of store

  A kind of license, or custom-house permission, for re-importing unsold goods from foreign ports duty...

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