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Butcher
·vt To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
II. Butcher ·vt To k...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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butcher
n.
South Australian slang for a longdrink of beer, so-called (it is said) because the men of acerta...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Chicken
·noun A young bird or fowl, ·esp. a young barnyard fowl.
II. Chicken ·noun A young person; a child;...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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butcher-bird
n.
The name is in use elsewhere,but in Australia it is applied to the genus Cracticus.The varieties...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Chicken pox
·- A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Chicken-breasted
·adj Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Chicken-hearted
·adj Timid; fearful; cowardly.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water chicken
·- The common American gallinule.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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chicken-breasted
Said of a woman with scarce any breasts.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chicken-hammed
Persons whose legs and thighs are bent or archward outwards.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chicken-hearted
Fearful, cowardly.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chicken nabob
One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a d...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sucking chicken
A young chicken.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chicken-fixings
In the Western States, a chicken fricassee.
We trotted on very fast, in the assurance of rapidly ap...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Butcher, Samuel Henry
LL.D., etc.
(b. 1850)
Scholar. Prose Translation of the Odyssey (1879), with A. Lang, Some Aspects...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Butcher Hall Lane
See King Edward Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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mother cary's chicken
The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Butcher Row, East Smithfield
South-east from Upper East Smithfield to Lower East Smithfield (Lockie's Topog. 1810-Elmes' Topog. D...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Butcher Row, Aldgate High Street
On the south side of Aldgate High Street, east from the Minories.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.