The hulks.
·vt A gambling house. II. Hell ·vt To <<Overwhelm>>. III. Hell ·vt A place where outcast persons o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A taylor's repository for his stolen goods, called cabbage: see CABBAGE. Little hell; a small dark c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
In the Old Testament this is the word generally and unfortunately used by our translators to render ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun The second coat of three-coat plastering. II. Floating ·noun Floating threads. ·see Floating ...
·noun A witch; a hag. ...
·noun The <<Dabchick>>. ...
·adj Haunted by devils; hellish. ...
A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman. See termagant and vixen. ...
A wicked abandoned fellow. ...
A vessel with a bad name for tyranny. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Floating lien. ...
·add. ·- A charge, lien, ·etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from ...
See campbell's academy. ...
A simple machine consisting of a fourfold canvas, stretched by two cross-bars of iron, rivetted in t...
A vessel expressly fitted for action in harbours or sheltered waters, having heavier offensive and d...
An old ship fitted up in a commercial port for the purpose of public Worship. ...
A passage formed across a river or creek by means of bridges of boats, as over the Douro, Rhine, &c....
(See frapping a ship.) A term for the old 10-gun brigs. ...
A caisson used instead of gates for a dry-dock. ...
See caisson. ...
A vessel moored off rocks or sand-banks, hoisting lights at night. ...
As the stage at Liverpool. ...
For caulkers, painters, &c. ...
A lewd graceless youth, one naturally of a wicked disposition. ...
The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...
A modified camel (which see). ...