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Harry
·vi To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
II. Harry ·vt To <<Strip>>; to lay wast...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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harry
A country fellow. CANT.--Old Harry; the Devil.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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harry
to teaze. HARRIED, weary. Lane. To plunder. Northumb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Country
·adv The rock through which a vein runs.
II. Country ·adv Rural regions, as opposed to a city or to...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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country
A term synonymous with station. The place whither a ship happens to be ordered.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel
(fl. 1470-1492)
Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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old harry
A composition used by vintners to adulterate their wines; also the nick-name for the devil.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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harry-gawd
a rigsby, a wild child. N
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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king harry
a goldfinch. Norf. and SufF.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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meg-harry
a hoyden girl ; a torn-boy. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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harry-bannings
A north-country name for sticklebacks.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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harry-net
A net with such small meshes, and so formed, as to take even the young and small fish.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Country bank
·add. ·- A national bank not in a reserve city.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Country club
·add. ·- A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Country cousin
·add. ·- A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Country seat
·- A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Country-base
·noun ·same·as Prison base.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Country-dance
·noun ·see <<Contradance>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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North country
A general name for the countries that lay north of Palestine. Most of the invading armies entered Pa...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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country put
An ignorant country fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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summer country
n.
In New Zealand (South Island), country which can be used in summer only; mountainland in Otago a...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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winter country
in New Zealand (South Island),land so far unaffected by snow that stock is wintered on it.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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old country
A term applied to Great Britain, originally by natives from that country, but now understood and use...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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east-country
A term applied to the regions bordering on the Baltic.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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maritime country
A country which has its shores washed by the sea.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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old country
A very general designation for Great Britain among the Americans. The term is never applied to any p...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Battersby, Harry Francis Prevost ("Francis Prevost")
Poet, novelist, and war correspondent. Poems, Melilot (1886), Fires of Greenwood (1887). Novels, Rus...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Forman, Harry Buxton
C.B.
(b. 1842)
Biographer, etc. Our Living Poets (1871), ed. Works of Shelley (1876-80), Letters o...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Harry Barton's Alley
In Coleman Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 59).
John Barton and Agnes his wife are mentioned by S...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Never, Never Country
or Never, Never Land
See quotations. Mr. Cooper's explanation (1857 quotation) isnot generally acce...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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east-country ships
The same as easterlings.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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west-country parson
A fish, the hake (Gadus merluccius), is so called, from a black streak on its back, and from its abu...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Samaria, Country Of
Samaria at first included all the tribes over which Jeroboam made himself king, whether east or west...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary