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Wife
·noun A woman; an adult female;
— now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Wife
The ordinance of marriage was sanctioned in Paradise (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6). Monogamy was the ori...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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wife
A fetter fixed to one leg.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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dogs
To go to the dogs. To go to destruction; to be ruined, destroyed, or devoured.--Johnson.
Had whol...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dogs
The last supports knocked away at the launching of a ship.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Pudding wife
·add. ·- A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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old-wife
n.
a New South Wales fish, Enoplosus armatus, White, family Percidae.The local name Old-Wife in Eng...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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old-wife
The popular name of a brown duck, one of the most common throughout North America, the long-tailed D...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fish-wife
, or fish-woman.
A female carrier and vendor of fish in our northern cities.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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old wife
A fish about 2 feet long, and 9 inches high in the back, having a small mouth, a large eye, a broad ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dog's-bane
·noun ·see <<Dogbane>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's-ear
·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's-tongue
·noun Hound's-tongue.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's portion
A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer o...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's rig
To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's soup
Rain water.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's tongue
n.
name given to the plant Cynoglossum suaveolens, R. Br., N.O. Asperifoliae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dog's bane
(Apocynum androsæmifolium.) The common name of a shrub, which grows along the road-side and borders ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fog-dogs
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ring-dogs
Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sling-dogs
In timber lifting, a dog is an iron implement with a fang at one end, and an eye at the other, in wh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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left-handed wife
A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his con...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dog's-tail grass
·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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wife in water colours
A mistress, or concubine; water colours being, like their engagements, easily effaced, or dissolved....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Pharaoh, The Wife Of
The wife of one Pharaoh, the king who received Hadad the Edomite, is mentioned in Scripture. She is ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court
Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.