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Walking
·- ·adj & ·noun from Walk, v.
II. Walking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Walk>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Leaf
·vi To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to <<Leave>>; as, the trees leaf in May.
II. Leaf ·noun...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Leaf
Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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leaf
To go off with the fall of the leaf; to be hanged: criminals in Dublin being turned off from the out...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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leaf
The side of a lock-gate.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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walking cornet
An ensign of foot.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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walking poulterer
One who steals fowls, and hawks them from door to door.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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walking stationer
A hawker of pamphlets, &c.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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walking-stick
n.
See phasmid.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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walking ticket
Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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walking papers
Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Bay leaf
·- ·see under 3d Bay.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Five-leaf
·noun Cinquefoil; five-finger.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Leaf-footed
·adj Having leaflike expansions on the legs;
— said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Le...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Leaf-nosed
·noun Having a leaflike membrane on the nose;
— said of certain bats, ·esp. of the genera Phyllosto...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lion's leaf
·- A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which cont...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Strip-leaf
·noun Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sumatra leaf
·add. ·- A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively us...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Leaf, Walter
Litt.D.
(b. 1852)
Scholar and translator. The Iliad of Homer translated into English Prose (with A...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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bitter-leaf
n.
a Tasmanian name for the Native Hop. See hops and hop-bush.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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broad-leaf
n.
a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea.
1879. W. N. Blair, `Bu...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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flax-leaf
n.
the blade of the New ZealandFlax (q.v.).
1884. T. Bracken, `Lays of Maori' p. 69:
«Zephyrs sti...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jelly-leaf
n.
i.q. Queensland hemp (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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leaf-insect
n.
See phasmid.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Leaf, Leaves
The word occurs in the Authorized Version either in singular or plural number in three different sen...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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walking the plank
A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny or ship-board, by blindfolding them, an...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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palm, walking-stick
n.
a Queensland plant, Bacularia monostachya, F. v. M., N.O. Palmeae.So called because the stem is ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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walking-stick palm
n.
See under palm, walking-stick.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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walking a plank
An obsolete method of destroying people in mutiny and piracy, under a plea of avoiding the penalty o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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walking speaking-trumpet
A midshipman repeating quarter-deck orders.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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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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walking up against the wall
To run up a score, which in alehouses is commonly recorded with chalk on the walls of the bar.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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walking away with the anchor
Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...
The Sailor's Word-Book