dark cully

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• Cully

  ·noun To trick, cheat, or impose on; to <<Deceive>>. II. Cully ·noun A person easily deceived, tric...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cully

  A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Dark

  ·vt To darken to obscure. II. Dark ·adj Deprived of sight; blind. III. Dark ·noun The condition of...

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• dark

  blind. QUITE DARK, stone blind. North. ALMOST DARK, nearly blind. ...

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

• bleeding cully

  One who parts easily with his money, or bleeds freely. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flogging cully

  A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• keeping cully

  One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Pitch-dark

  ·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black. ...

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• Dark Entry

  1) East out of Lower East Smithfield, facing Butcher Row (P.C. 1732, to Elmes, 1831). Called also "...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• dark glasses

  Shades fitted to instruments of reflection for preventing the bright rays of the sun from hurting th...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Dark House Lane

  1) South out of the eastern end of High Timber Street to the Thames. In Queenhithe Ward (Horwood, 17...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bow-dark tree

  (Fr. bois d'arc.) A western tree, the wood of which is used to make bows with. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• head cully of the pass

  The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from al...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Dark Entry, Duke Street, Aldgate

  See Church Passage. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Dark Lane, High Timber Street

  See Dark House Lane. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.