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Flash
·noun A <<Pool>>.
II. Flash ·noun To trick up in a showy manner.
III. Flash ·noun Slang or cant of...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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flash
1) Knowing. Understanding another's meaning. The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle. The...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flash
a supply of water from the locks on the Thames, to assist the barges. S. Any little pool. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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flash
The laminæ and grain-marks in timber, when cut into planks. Also, a pool. Also, in the west, a river...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ken
·vi To look around.
II. Ken ·noun A house; ·esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
III. Ken ·nou...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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ken
A house. A bob ken, or a bowman ken; a well-furnished house, also a house that harbours thieves. Bit...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ken
to know ; also to observe at a distance. I ken him afar off. N. Out of ken, ought of sight.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Flash boiler
·add. ·- A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flash burner
·add. ·- A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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flash panneys
Houses to which thieves and prostitutes resort. Next for his favourite MOT (Girl) the KIDDEY (Youth)...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flash song
or flash
A periwig. Rum flash; a fine long wig. Queer flash; a miserable weather-beaten caxon.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flash lingo
The canting or slang language.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flash man
A bully to a bawdy house. A whore's bully.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flash rim
In carronades, a cup-shaped enlargement of the bore at the muzzle, which facilitates the loading, an...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flash vessels
All paint outside, and no order within.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ken, Thomas
(1637-1711)
Religious writer, s. of an attorney, was b. at Little Berkhampstead, ed. at Winchester ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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bowsing ken
An ale-house or gin-shop.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cackler's ken
A hen roost. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fencing ken
The magazine, or warehouse, where stolen goods are secreted.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ken miller
A housebreaker. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ken cracker
A housebreaker. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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queer ken
A prison. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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smuggling ken
A bawdy-house.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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snoozing ken
A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman was robbed of his ba...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stalling ken
A broker's shop, or that of a receiver of stolen goods.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stuling ken
See stalling ken. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ken specked
marked or branded for distinction. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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mis-ken
to mistake, to misunderstand. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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ken, to
Ang.-Sax. descrying, as Shakspeare in Henry VI.:
"And far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs."
♦ K...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ken-speckled
Conspicuous; having distinct marks.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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to flash the hash
To vomit. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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burn the ken
Strollers living in an alehouse without paying their quarters, are said to burn the ken. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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gentry cove ken
A gentleman's house. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to flash in the pan
To fail of success. A metaphor borrowed from a gun, which, after being primed and ready to be discha...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flash in the pan
An expressive metaphor, borrowed from the false fire of a musket, meaning to fail of success after p...
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