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• Jacket

  ·vt To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket. II. Jacket ·vt To <<Thrash>>; to <<...

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• jacket

  A doublet; any kind of outer coat. ♦ Cork jacket, is lined with cork in pieces, in order to give i...

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• Yellow

  ·noun A yellow pigment. II. Yellow ·vi To become yellow or yellower. III. Yellow ·vt To make yello...

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• yellow

  To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and fin...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Air jacket

  ·- A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoy...

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• Cardigan jacket

  ·- A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves. ...

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• Norfolk jacket

  ·add. ·- A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt. ...

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• Pea-jacket

  ·noun A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather. ...

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• Strait-jacket

  ·noun A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It h...

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• leather-jacket

  n. 1) A name applied popularly and somewhat confusedly to varioustrees, on account of the toughness...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• thousand-jacket

  n. a North Island name for Ribbon-wood (q.v.), a New Zealand tree. Layer afterlayer of the inner ba...

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• air-jacket

  A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water. (See ayr.) ...

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• leather-jacket

  A tropical fish with a very thick skin. ...

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• magellan jacket

  A name given to a watch-coat with a hood, worn in high latitudes first used by Cook's people. ...

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• monkey-jacket

  A warm jacket for night-watches, &c. ...

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• p.-jacket

  A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth. ...

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• pea or p.-jacket

  A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth. ...

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• Naples yellow

  ·- ·see under <<Yellow>>. ...

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• Yellow Book

  ·add. ·- In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers. ...

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• Yellow-covered

  ·adj Covered or bound in yellow paper. ...

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• Yellow-eyed

  ·adj Having yellow eyes. ...

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• Yellow-golds

  ·noun A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. ...

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• Yellow Street

  North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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• Yellow Court

  North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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• yellow belly

  A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there. ...

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• yellow boys

  Guineas. ...

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• lily, yellow

  n. a Tasmanian name for Bulbine bulbosa, Haw., N.O. Liliaceae.See Leek, Native. ...

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• yellow-belly

  n. In New South Wales, the nameis given to a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus;called also Golde...

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• yellow fever

  sc. the gold-fever. 1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 47: «Evident symptoms of the retu...

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• yellow-head

  n. name given to a bird of NewZealand, Clitonyx ochrocephala, or Native Canary (q.v.), common in So...

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• yellow lily

  n. a Tasmanian name for the Native Leek. See Leek. ...

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• yellow-tail

  n. The name is given in Victoriato the fish Caranx trachurus, Cuv. and Val.; the Horse-Mackerel (q....

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• yellow thyme

  n. a herb, Hibbertiaserpyllifolia, R. Br., N.O. Dilleneaceae. ...

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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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• yellow-hammer

  (Picus auratus. Wilson, Ornith.) The popular name of the Golden-winged Woodpecker, the most beautifu...

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• yellow belly

  a person born in the Fens of Lincolnshire. L. ...

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• yellow admiral

  A retired post-captain, who, not having served his time in that rank, is not entitled to his promoti...

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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...

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• yellow fever

  A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloure...

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• yellow-flag

  The signal of quarantine. ...

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• yellow-tail

  A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great h...

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• jacket-a-wad

  an ignis fatuus. Exm. ...

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• trimming a jacket

  Rope's-ending the wearer. ...

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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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• staggering bob, with his yellow pumps

  A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose