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Calf
·noun The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
II. Calf ·noun A small island near a larger...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Skin
·vi To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
II. Skin ·noun A vessel made of skin, used...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Calf
Calves were commonly made use of in sacrifices, and are therefore frequently mentioned in Scripture....
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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skin
1) In a bad skin; out of temper, in an ill humour. Thin-skinned: touchy, peevish.
2) A purse. Frisk...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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calf
I.
, or calva
A Norwegian name, also used in the Hebrides, for islets lying off islands, and bea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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skin
This term is frequently used for the inside planking of a vessel, the outside being the case.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Calf
The calf was held in high esteem by the Jews as food. (1 Samuel 28:24; Luke 15:23) The molten calf p...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Fiddle
·vi To play on a fiddle.
II. Fiddle ·vt To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
III. Fiddle ·noun A stringed...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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fiddle
A contrivance to prevent things from rolling off the table in bad weather. It takes its name from it...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Divinity calf
·add. ·- Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sea calf
·- The common seal.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Skin-deep
·adj Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Tree calf
·add. ·- A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike des...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Golden calf
(Ex. 32:4, 8; Deut. 9:16; Neh. 9:18). This was a molten image of a calf which the idolatrous Israeli...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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blue skin
A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bull calf
A great hulkey or clumsy fellow.
See hulkey.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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skin flint
An avaricious man or woman,
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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kangaroo-skin
n.
either the leather for thetanned hide, or the complete fur for rugs and wraps.
1806. `History o...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wallaby-skin
the skin, with the hair on it,of the wallaby, prized as a warm and ornamental fur for rugs.
1890. `...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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skin-flint
A niggardly, close-fisted person--one so parsimoniously mean, that he would perform that operation w...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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quy-calf
a cow-calf. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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why-calf
a female, or cow-calf. Cumb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cat's-skin
A light partial current of air, as with the cat's-paw.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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sea-calf
A seal, Phoca vitulina.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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whale-calf
The young whale.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Fiddle-faddle
·vi To talk nonsense.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Fiddle-shaped
·adj Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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fiddle faddle
Trifling discourse, nonsense. A mere fiddle faddle fellow; a trifier.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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scotch fiddle
The itch.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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welch fiddle
The itch.
See scotch fiddle.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fiddle-back
n.
name given inAustralia to the beetle, Schizorrhina australasiae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fiddle faddle
Trifling discourse; nonsense.--Grose. Johnson. Also used adjectively and as a verb.
She said that h...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fiddle-block
A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper (see long-tackl...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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fiddle-fish
A name of the king-crab (Limulus polyphemus), from its supposed resemblance to that instrument.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fiddle-head
When there is no figure; this means that the termination of the head is formed by a scroll turning a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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to deacon a calf
is to knock it in the head as soon as it is born.--Connecticut.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to play second fiddle
is to take an inferior part in any project or undertaking. A metaphor borrowed from a musical perfor...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Skin, Coats made of
(Gen. 3:21). Skins of rams and badgers were used as a covering for the tabernacle (Ex. 25:5; Num. 4:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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tormenter of sheep skin
A drummer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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skin of a sail
The outside part when a sail is furled. To furl in a clean skin, is the habit of a good seaman.
♦ ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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The Cat and Fiddle Cheap
A shop called the "Catt and Fiddell" in the parish of St. Peter in Chepe, 4 Ed. VI. (Lond. I. p.m. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to hang up one's fiddle
To desist; to give up.
When a man loses his temper and ain't cool, he might as well hang up his fid...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Hospital for Diseases of the Skin
On the east side of New Bridge Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1880).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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by the skin of one's teeth
When a man has made a narrow escape from any dilemma, it is a common remark to say, that he has save...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose