cold pye

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• Pye

  ·noun ·see 2d Pie (b). ...

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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

• Sea pye

  ·- ·see 1st Sea pie. ...

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• Pye Corner

  At the northern end of Giltspur Street, leading to West Smithfield, in Farringdon Ward Without (Elme...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• choaking 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

• yarmouth pye

  A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annua...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• sea-pye

  See oyster-catcher ...

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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. II. Cold-shut ·adj Closed while too cold...

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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...

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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

• cold cook

  An undertaker of funerals, or carrion hunter. See carrion hunter. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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

• cold meat

  A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's house. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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

• cold pudding

  This is said to settle one's love. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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.

• cold fire

  a fire laid ready for lighting. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• 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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• Joe-Pye weed

  ·- A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled...

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• Pye, Henry James

  (1745-1813) A country gentleman of Berkshire, who pub. Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epi...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• apple-pye bed

  A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so doub...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pudding-pye-doll

  the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Pye Corner, Tower Street

  At the east end of Tower Street, and north end of Petty Wales, 23 poles north from Richardson's whar...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Pye in the Royall

  A Messuage so called in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Church, 1565 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 35). ...

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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.