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Wood
·vi To take or get a supply of wood.
II. Wood ·noun Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
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wood
In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of troubles, puzzled, or at a loss what course to take i...
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to wood
To supply or get supplies of wood.--Webster. The boats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in their ...
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White
·noun A white pigment; as, Venice white.
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White
A symbol of purity (2 Chr. 5:12; Ps. 51:7; Isa. 1:18; Rev. 3:18; 7:14). Our Lord, at his transfigura...
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white
1) to requite ; as, God white you, God requite you. Chesh. Var. Dial.
2) to blame ; you lean all th...
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wood and wood
When two pieces of timber are so let into each other as to join close. Also, when a tree-nail is dri...
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Aloes wood
·- ·see <<Agalloch>>.
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Amboyna wood
·- A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Ind...
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Bethabara wood
·- A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, ·etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be ...
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Brazil wood
·- The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan;
— so called before the discovery of America.
II. Br...
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Calamander wood
·- A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very...
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Campeachy Wood
·- <<Logwood>>.
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Cassava wood
·add. ·- A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceae.
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Cocus wood
·- A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.
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Gopher wood
·- A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark.
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Kiabooca wood
·- ·see Kyaboca wood.
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Kyaboca wood
·- Amboyna wood.
II. Kyaboca wood ·- Sandalwood (Santalum album).
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Lingoa wood
·- Amboyna wood.
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Madeira wood
·add. ·- The mahogany tree (Swietenia Mahogoni).
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Myall wood
·- A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obta...
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Nicaragua wood
·- Brazil wood.
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Omander wood
·- The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.
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Rosetta wood
·- An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasio...
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Sapan wood
·- A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighb...
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Sappan wood
·- Sapan wood.
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Shittim wood
·noun The wood of the shittah tree.
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Thyine wood
·- The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called...
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Wood gum
·add. ·- <<Xylan>>.
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Wood hyacinth
·add. ·- A European squill (Scilla nonscripta) having a scape bearing a raceme of drooping blue, pur...
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Wood partridge
·add. ·- The Canada grouse.
II. Wood partridge ·add. ·- Any of several small partridges of Java, Su...
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Wood tick
·- Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly ...
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Wood-bound
·adj Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows.
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Wood-layer
·noun A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants ...
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Wood-note
·noun A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird.
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Wood-sare
·noun A kind of froth seen on herbs.
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Wood-sere
·noun The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season.
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Wood-wash
·noun ·Alt. of Wood-waxen.
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Wood-wax
·noun ·Alt. of Wood-waxen.
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Wood-waxen
·noun ·same·as <<Woadwaxen>>.
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Thyine wood
Mentioned only in Rev. 18:12 among the articles which would cease to be purchased when Babylon fell....
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Wood-offering
(Neh. 10:34; 13:31). It would seem that in the time of Nehemiah arrangements were made, probably on ...
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Wood, or À Wood, Anthony
(1632-1695)
Antiquary, was b. at Oxf., where he was ed. and spent most of his life. His antiquarian...
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Wood Street
North out of Cheapside, at No.122, to London Wall (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Within and Cr...
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Wood Wharf
On the east and west sides of Trigg Lane, in Queenhithe Ward (O. and M. 1677, and Strype, 1720 and 1...
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wood pecker
A bystander, who bets whilst another plays.
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beef-wood
n.
the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blood-wood
or Blood-tree
n.
a nameapplied, with various epithets, to many of the Gum-trees (q.v.), especially...
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box-wood
n.
a New Zealand wood, Olealanceolata, Hook., N.O. Jasminea (Maori name, Maire). Used by the `Welli...
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camphor-wood
n.
an Australian timber; the woodof Callitris (Frenea) robusta, Cunn., N.O. Coniferae. Called also ...
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coopers-wood
n. the timber of an Australiantree, Alphitonia excelsa, Reiss, N.O. Rhamneae.The wood becomes dark w...
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cotton-wood
n.
the timber of an Australiantree, Bedfordia salicina, De C., N.O. Compositae.Called Dog-wood (q.v...
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ivory-wood
n.
an Australian timber, Siphonodon australe, Benth., N.O. Celastrinae.
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leather-wood
n.
i.q. pinkwood (q.v.).
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lemon-wood
n.
one of the names given bysettlers to the New Zealand tree called by Maoris Tarata (q.v.), or Map...
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marble(-)wood
n.
name applied to awhitish-coloured mottled timber, Olea paniculata,R. Br., N.O. Jasmineae; called...
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milk-wood
n.
a Northern Territory namefor Melaleuca leucadendron, Linn.; called also Paperbark-tree (q.v.).
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musk-wood
n.
See musk-tree.
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partridge-wood
n.
another name for the Cabbage-Palm (q.v.).
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scent-wood
a Tasmanian evergreen shrub, Alyxiabuxifolia, R. Br., N.O. Apocyneae, of the dogbanefamily.
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tallow-wood
n.
another name for one of the Stringy-barks (q.v.), Eucalyptus microcorys,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae...
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tar-wood
n.
name given by the Otago bushmen tothe tree Darrydium colensoi, Hook.; Maori name, Manoao (q.v.)....
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tulip-wood
n.
The name is given,in Australia, to Aphnanthe philipinensis, Planch., N.O. Urticaceae, and to the...
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turnip-wood
n.
the timbers of the trees Akania hillii, J. Hook., N.O. Sapindaceae,and Dysoxylon Muelleri, Benth...
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waddy wood
or White Wood
n.
name given in Tasmania to the tree Pittosporum bicolor,Hook., N.O. Pittosporeae; ...
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wood-duck
n.
a name given by the colonists ofNew South Wales and «Swan River» to the Maned Goose, Branta juba...
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wood savages
See wood natives
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wood natives
or Wood Savages
obsolete names for the Australian aborigines.
1817. O'Hara, `History of New South ...
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yellow-wood
a name applied to several Australiantrees with the epithets of Dark, Light, Deep, etc., inallusion t...
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black wood
Hemlock, pine, spruce, and fir.
Maine.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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button wood
(Platanus occidentalis.) The popular name in New England of the sycamore tree; so called from the ha...
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stam-wood
the roots of trees, stubbed up. S.
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billet-wood
Small wood mostly used for dunnage in stowing ships' cargoes, also for fuel, usually sold by the fat...
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dead wood
Certain blocks of timber, generally oak, fayed on the upper side of the keel, particularly at the ex...
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fathom-wood
Slab and other offal of timber, sold at the yards, by fathom lots: cubic measurement.
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hawse-wood
A general name for the hawse-timbers.
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lag-wood
The larger sticks from the head of an oak-tree when felled.
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peon-wood
See poon-wood.
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wood, to
A gun is said to wood when it takes the port-sills or port-sides, or the trucks the water-ways.
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wood-ends
See hood-ends.
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wood-mulls
Large thick hose worn by the men in coasters and fishing-boats.
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wood-sheathing
All plank applied to strengthen a vessel. (See double, to.)
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Thyine Wood
occurs in (Revelation 18:12) where the margin has "sweet" (wood). There can be little doubt that the...
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Cream-white
·adj As white as cream.
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Snow-white
·adj White as snow; very white.
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Water-white
·noun A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and contain...
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White elephant
·add. ·- Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome posses...
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White fly
·add. ·- Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to s...
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White friar
·- A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. ·see ...
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White horse
·add. ·- A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper ja...
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White list
·add. ·- The official list of all transactions, published daily on white paper, divided into sales f...
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White mustard
·add. ·- A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pa...
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White person
·add. ·- A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256).
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White plague
·add. ·- Tuberculosis, ·esp. of the lungs.
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White slave
·add. ·- A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman fo...
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White slaver
·add. ·- A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White slaving
·add. ·- The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White-blaze
·noun ·see White-face.
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White-ear
·noun The <<Wheatear>>.
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White-eye
·noun Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops pal...
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White-face
·noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose;
— called also white-b...
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White-foot
·noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
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White-fronted
·adj Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
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White-heart
·noun A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
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White-hot
·adj White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
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White-limed
·adj Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
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White-livered
·adj Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
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White-pot
·noun A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, ·etc., baked in a pot.
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White-water
·noun A dangerous disease of sheep.
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White, Gilbert
(1720-1793)
Naturalist, b. at Selborne, Hants, and ed. along with the Wartons (q.v.) at their fathe...
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White Bear
In Abchurch Lane.
Destroyed in the Fire 1666.
Rebuilt as " Pontack's," for many years a famous tav...
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White Bull
Hostel so called in Westmythfeld, 1445 (Cal. L. Bk. K. p.310).
Not further identified.
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White Cross
In an Inquisition 3 Ed. I. mention is made of water coming down from Smethefeld del Barbican in the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The White Hart
1) Tenement called the "Sygne de le Whyte Harte " in Westchepe in parish of St. Mary Colchurch, betw...
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The White Harte
1) A messuage so called lying in St. Nicholas Fleshambles in parish of Christchurch, 1568 (Lond. I. ...
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The White Horse
1) A messuage in Holborne and Fetter Lane, 33 Eliz. (Lond. I p.m. III. 153).
Qy. = White Horse Alle...
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White Street
West out of Moorfields, at No.39, to Moor Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
First...
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The White Swan
A messuage called the White Swan. In Great Eastcheap in parish of St. Leonard upon Fish street hill,...
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White Yard
Out of Lamb Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I ii 108-Boyle, 1799).
The site i...
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lily white
A chimney-sweeper.
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white feather
He has a white feather; he is a coward; an allusion to a game cock, where having a white leather is ...
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white-livered
Cowardly, malicious.
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white lie
A harmless lie, one not told with a malicious intent, a lie told to reconcile people at variance.
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white serjeant
A man fetched from the tavern or ale-house by his wife, is said to be arrested by the white serjeant...
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white swelling
A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
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maori, white
New Zealand miners' name for a stone. See quotation.
1883. `A Citizen,' `Illustrated Guide to Duned...
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plum, white
n.
local name for Acacia (q.v.).
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white-bream
See silver-bream
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white-eye
n.
another name for the bird calledvariously Silver-Eye, Wax-Eye, Blight-Bird, etc., Zosterops (q.v...
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white-face
n.
a name applied to the Australianbird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould. Another species isthe Chestnut...
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white gallinule
n.
one of the birds of thefamily called Rails. The White Gallinule wasrecorded from New South Wales...
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white-head
n.
a bird of New Zealand, Clitonyx albicapilla, Buller. Found in North Island,but becoming very rar...
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white-pointer
n.
a New South Wales name forthe White-Shark. See Shark.
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white-top
n.
another name for Flintwood (q.v.).
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white-trevally
n.
an Australian fish.See Trevally.
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish and Fisheries of NewSout...
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white nib
a rook. Yorksh.
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white bite
The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...
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white bait or bite
The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...
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white caps
Waves with breaking crests, specially between the east end of Jamaica and Kingston; but obtaining ge...
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white feather
The figurative symbol of cowardice: a white feather in a cock's tail being considered a proof of cro...
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white-fish
A fish of the salmon family, found in the lakes of North America; also a name of the hard-head (whic...
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white-herring
A pickled herring in the north, but in other parts a fresh herring is so called.
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white-horse
A name of the Raia fullonica. (See also white caps.)
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white-lappelle
A sobriquet for a lieutenant, in allusion to his former uniform. (See lappelle.)
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white-rope
Rope which has not been tarred. Manilla, coir, and some other ropes, do not require tarring.
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white squall
A tropical wind said to give no warning; it sweeps the surface with spoon-drift.
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white-tape
A term amongst smugglers for hollands or gin.
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white-water
That which is seen over extensive sandy patches, where, owing to the limpidity and shallowness of th...
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White Hart, White Hart Court
West out of Bishopsgate, at No, 119, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
The date 1480 wa...
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Sea wood louse
·- A sea slater.
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Ephraim, Wood of
A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was k...
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Wood, Mrs. Ellen (Price)
(1814-1887)
Novelist, writing as "Mrs. Henry Wood," was b. at Worcester. She wrote over 30 novels, ...
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Wood, John George
(1827-1889)
Writer on natural history, s. of a surgeon, b. in London, and ed. at home and at Oxf., ...
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Alban (St.), Wood Street
On the east side of Wood Street, at the corner of Little Love Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate ...
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Great Wood Street
See Wood Street.
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Little Wood Street
See Wood Street.
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(St.) Michael Wood Street
On the west side of Wood Street, and north side of Huggin Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Within (O.S. 188...
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Red Wood Alley
West out of Bishopsgate Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Called " Ge...
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Wood Green Court
South-east out of Harrow Alley, Middlesex Street. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 27-O.S...
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Wood Street Compter
On the east side of Wood Street, in Cripplegate Ward Within.
One of the Sheriffs' Prisons.
First m...
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Wood Street Square
West out of Hart Street at No.3 at its junction with Monkwell Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (P.O...
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king's wood lion
An Ass. Kingswood is famous for the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit that plac...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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botany-bay wood
See botany-bay oak
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dead-wood fence
n.
The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...
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deep yellow-wood
n.
Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...
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light yellow-wood
i.q. long-jack (q.v.).
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seame of wood
a horse-load. S.
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churd of wood
See cord of wood
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cord or churd of wood
; as firewood. A statute stack is 8 feet long, 4 feet broad, and 4 feet high.
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dead-wood knees
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
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Great White Way
·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Schwann's white substance
·- The substance of the medullary sheath.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Taylor-White process
·add. ·- A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toug...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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White, Henry Kirke
(1785-1806)
Poet, s. of a butcher at Nottingham. At first assisting his f., next a stocking weaver,...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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White, Joseph Blanco
(1775-1841)
Poet, s. of a merchant, an Irish Roman Catholic resident at Seville, where he was b., b...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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White, Richard Grant
(1822-1885)
Shakespearian scholar, b. in New York State, was long Chief of the Revenue Marine Burea...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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White, WIlliam Hale
(c. 1830)
Novelist, etc. The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1885), Mark Rutherford's Deliverance...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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White Bear Alley
West out of Addle Hill, with a passage north to Church Hill, in Castle Baynard Ward (Rocque, 1746-L....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Bear Yard
South out of Bride Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Lockie, 1816)
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Bell Alley
North out of Great Eastcheap, east of St. Clement's Lane. In Candlewick Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Cock Alley
South out of Thames Street to the Thames, west of and leading to Dyers' Hall (O. and M. 1677).
Purc...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Cock Court
East out of Bread Street, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
Site has been rebuilt...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Fryars Lane
South out of Whitefriars to the Thames (Leake, 1666).
See Whitefriars Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Fryers Stairs
At the south end of Waterman's Lane on the Thames, west of Whitefriars Dock (Leake, 1666-L. Guide, 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hall Court
East from the Tower precinct to St. Katherine's lane (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1811).
Removed for the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hart Alley
South out of Leadenhall Street, in Aldgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Former name: "White ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hart Court
1) North out of Long Lane, West Smithfield, to the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without (Hor...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hart Inn
1) On the north side of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without, with a passage to 3 Leg Court (Str...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hart Street
East out of Warwick Lane, at No.25, to Paternoster Square (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Head Court
In Duke's Place (W. Stow, 1722-P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hind Court
1) See Bishopsgate Buildings.
2) West out of Coleman Street, in Coleman Street Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Hind Yard
North out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M., 1677).
See White Hart Inn.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Horse Alley
1) South out of Holborn, east of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Stok...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.