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Cold
·vi To become cold.
II. Cold ·noun Not pungent or acrid.
III. Cold ·noun Not sensitive; not acute....
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cold
You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or advice to desist from an attempt. He caught cold by ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Pudding
·noun Any food or victuals.
II. Pudding ·noun ·same·as <<Puddening>>.
III. Pudding ·noun Anything ...
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pudding
See puddening
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Cold wave
·add. ·- In the terminology of the United States Weather Bureau, an unusual fall in temperature, to ...
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Cold-blooded
·adj Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
II. Cold-blooded ·adj Not thoroughbred;
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Cold-hearted
·adj Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.
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Cold-short
·adj Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
II. Cold-short ·add. ·adj Brittle when cold (that is, ...
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Cold-shut
·noun An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.
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Key-cold
·adj Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
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Stone-cold
·adj Cold as a stone.
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Cold Abbeye
A tenement so called in Wendageynes Lane held under the Fraternity of St. Katherine in the Church of...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cold pye
A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold burning
A punishment inflicted by private soldiers on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of the...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold cook
An undertaker of funerals, or carrion hunter.
See carrion hunter.
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cold iron
A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold meat
A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's house.
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cold pig
To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pull...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bitter cold
Very cold. This common colloquial expression is used alike in England and America.
Those who say it...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cold fire
a fire laid ready for lighting. York.
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cold-chisel
A stout chisel made of steel, used for cutting iron when it is cold.
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cold-eel
The Gymnotus electricus.
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Black pudding
·- A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, ·etc., thickened with meal.
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Hasty pudding
·- A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush.
II. Hasty pudding ·...
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Pock-pudding
·noun A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
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Pudding fish
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pudding wife.
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Pudding wife
·add. ·- A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radi...
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Pudding-headed
·adj <<Stupid>>.
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Sea pudding
·- Any large holothurian.
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hasty pudding
Oatmeal and milk boiled to a moderate thickness, and eaten with sugar and butter. Figuratively, a we...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack pudding
The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank.
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pudding sleeves
A parson.
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pudding time
In good time, or at the beginning of a meal: pudding formerly making the first dish. To give the cro...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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spoil pudding
A parson who preaches long sermons, keeping his congregation in church till the puddings are overdon...
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pudding-ball
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a fish; corruption of theaboriginal name of it, puddinba (q.v.), by the lawof Hobson-Jobson.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hasty-pudding
Indian meal stirred in boiling water into a thick batter or pudding, and eaten with milk, butter, an...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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beestling-pudding
pudding made of beest.
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hasty-pudding
A batter made of flour or oatmeal stirred in boiling water, and eaten with treacle or sugar at sea. ...
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Pudding Lane, Eastcheap
South out of Easteheap, at No.2, to 120 Lower Thames Street (P.O. Directory). In Billingsgate Ward a...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Pudding Lane, Queenhithe
Formed the eastern boundary of a wharf called" Tymber hyde" in parish of St. Mary Somerset bounded o...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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pudding-headed fellow
A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pudding-pye-doll
the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf.
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pudding and dolphin
A larger and lesser pad, made of ropes, and put round the masts under the lower yards.
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cold as presbyterian charity
I know not the origin of this saying, and am not aware that there is less charity in this sect than ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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(St.) George in Pudding Lane
See St. George Botolph Lane.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.