vine, macquarie harbour

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• macquarie harbour vine

  See grape, macquarie harbour ...

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• grape, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine (q.v.), n. name given to the climbing shrub Muehlenbeckia adpressra, Meis...

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• macquarie harbour grape

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine, n. the Tasmanian name for Muhlenbeckiaadpressa, Meissn. N.O. Polygonacea...

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• harbour

  A general name given to any safe sea-port. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that it sh...

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• Vine

  ·noun Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. II. Vine ·noun Hence, a climbing or trailing pla...

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• Vine

  One of the most important products of Palestine. The first mention of it is in the history of Noah (...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• vine

  n. In Australia, the word is looselyapplied to many trailing or creeping plants, which help toform ...

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• Vine

  the well-known valuable plant (vitis vinifera) very frequently referred to in the Old and New Testam...

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• macquarie pine

  n. See pine. ...

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• Harbour Lane

  South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames, west of Grantham's lane in the parish of St. Martin ...

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• bank-harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by banks of mud, gravel, sand, shingle, or silt...

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• blind-harbour

  One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived. ...

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• close harbour

  That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...

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• harbour-dues

  See port-charges. ...

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• harbour-gaskets

  Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at equal distances on the yard, for showing off a ...

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• harbour-guards

  Men detached from the ordinary, as a working party. ...

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• harbour-log

  That part of the log-book which consists solely of remarks, and relates only to transactions while t...

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• harbour-master

  An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...

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• harbour-reach

  The reach or stretch of a winding river which leads direct to the harbour. ...

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• harbour-watch

  A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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• hidden harbour

  That of which the outer points so overlap as to cause the coast to appear to be continuous. ...

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• island harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by one or more islands or islets screening its ...

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• river-harbour

  That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

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• shoaled-harbour

  That which is secured from the violence of the sea, by banks, bars, or shoals to sea-ward. ...

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• tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• tide or tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• Arbor vine

  ·- A species of bindweed. ...

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• Madeira vine

  ·add. ·- A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having...

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• Squaw vine

  ·add. ·- The partridge berry (Mitchella repens). ...

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• Vine-clad

  ·adj Covered with vines. ...

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• Water vine

  ·- Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are sin...

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• Vine Court

  1) East out of Moor Lane, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, 1720-O.S. 1880). Former name: "Bell ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Vine Inn, Vine Yard

  West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-O.S.1848-51). Called " P...

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• Vine Street

  1) South out of India Street, Minories, at No. 8, to the Circus (P.O. Directory). Earliest mention:...

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• Vine Yard

  1) East out of Aldersgate Street at No.101 (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward Without. First ment...

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• fruitful vine

  A woman's private parts, i.e. that has FLOWERS every month, and bears fruit in nine months. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• balloon vine

  n. Australian name for the commontropical weed, Cardiospermum halicacabum, Linn., N.O. Sapindaceae:...

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• balloon-vine

  n. Australian name for the commontropical weed, Cardiospermum halicacabum, Linn., N.O. Sapindaceae:...

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• caustic-vine

  See caustic-plant ...

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• lawyer-vine

  See lawyer ...

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• scrub-vine

  n. called also Native Rose. See bauera (q.v.). ...

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• vine, balloon

  See balloon vine. ...

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• vine, burdekin

  Called also Round Yam, Vitis opaca, F. v. M., N.O. Ampelideae. ...

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• vine, caustic

  i.q. caustic-plant (q.v.). ...

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• vine, lawyer

  See lawyer. ...

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• vine-fretter

  (Lat. aphis puceron.) An insect very destructive to vines, rose bushes, cabbages, &c. in the Souther...

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• Port-Macquarie Pine

  See pine. ...

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• Cole-Harbour Lane

  1) A lane leading south out of Upper Thames Street at No. 92 to the Thames at Cole Harbour Stairs, i...

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• Cole Harbour Stairs

  At the south end of Coleharbour in Dowgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). The wharf seems to hav...

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• harbour-duty men

  Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...

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• Aber-de-vine

  ·noun The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfin...

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• Vine of Sodom

  Referred to only in Deut. 32:32. Among the many conjectures as to this tree, the most probable is th...

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• Vine Court Warehouse

  North out of Thames Street, between Beer Lane and Water Lane (Strype, 1720). It seems to be shown i...

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• Vine Street, Bishopsgate

  See New Street9. ...

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• vine, native pepper

  See Climbing Pepper,under pepper. ...

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• vine, wonga wonga

  See wonga-wonga vine. ...

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• wonga-wonga vine

  n. a name for the hardy,evergreen climber, Tecoma australis, R. Br., N.O. Bignoniaceae. There are s...

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• Vine Of Sodom

  occurs only in (32:32) It is generally supposed that this passage alludes to the celebrated apples o...

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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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• Vine Court, Gravel Lane

  North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, 1720-Lond. Guide, 1758). Removed before ...

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• luff into a harbour, to

  To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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• thwart-marks, to a harbour

  Two objects on the land, which, brought into line with each other, mark the safe course between shoa...

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