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• Coming

  ·adj Ready to come; complaisant; fond. II. Coming ·noun Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• So-so

  ·adv Tolerably; passably. II. So-so ·adj Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolera...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Christmas

  ·noun An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the b...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Christmas

  n. and adj. As Christmas falls in Australasia at Midsummer, it has different characteristics from t...

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

• Is

  IS(Ἴς, Herod. i; 179), a town of Mesopotamia, eight days' journey N. of Babylon, situated, according...

  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

• is

  is, ĕa, id (m. eis, C. I. L. 1, 198; n. it, ib. 5, 875 al., and freq. in MSS. of Plaut.), gen. ējus ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• is

  is ea, id, gen.ēius (sometimes monosyl. in poetry), dat.ēī (rarely eī or monosyl. ei), pron.demonst...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Is

  ·vi The third person singular of the substantive verb be, in the indicative mood, present tense; as,...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Is-

  ·- ·see Iso-. II. Is- ·- Applied to certain compounds having the same composition but different pro...

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• So

  ·conj Provided that; on condition that; in case that; if. II. So ·adv It is well; let it be as it i...

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• So

  a measure for grain; vail ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• So

  (Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to hel...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• so

  is often improperly used for such, as in the phrase: Prof. W----, who has acquired so high distinct...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• so!

  An order to desist temporarily from hauling upon a rope, when it has come to its right position. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• So

  "So, king of Egypt," is once mentioned in the Bible- (2 Kings 17:4) So has been identified by differ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Home-coming

  ·noun Return home. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• coming-home

  Said of the anchor when it has been dropped on bad holding ground, or is dislodged from its bed by t...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• christmas compliments

  A cough, kibed heels, and a snotty nose. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• christmas-bush

  n. an Australian tree, Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Smith, N.O. Saxifrageae. Called also Christmas-tre...

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

• christmas-tree

  n. In Australia, it is the sameas Christmas-bush (q.v.). In New Zealand, it is Metrosideros tomento...

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

• ‘T is

  ·- A common contraction of it is. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• So-called

  ·adj So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with doubtful propriety). ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• gad-so

  An exclamation said to be derived from the Italian word cazzo. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• give her so and so

  The direction of the officer of the watch to the midshipman, reporting the rate of sailing by the lo...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Coming of Christ

  (1) with reference to his first advent "in the fulness of the time" (1 John 5:20; 2 John 1:7), or (2...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• the jig is up

  i. e. the game is up; it is all over with me. The time was when I could cut pigeon wings, and perfo...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• make it so

  The order of a commander to confirm the time, sunrise, noon, or sunset, reported to him by the offic...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• pauler, that is a

  A closer or stopper; an unanswerable or puzzling decision. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• what ship is that?

  A question often put when a jaw-breaking word has been intrusively uttered by savants. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• if so be as how

  A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

  Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose