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Flying
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Fly>>.
II. Flying ·vi Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightl...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flying boat
·add. ·- A compact form of hydro-aeroplane having one central body, or hull.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flying fish
·- A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its larg...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flying squirrel
·- One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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flying camps
Beggars plying in a body at funerals.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flying house
A lock in wrestling, by which he who uses it throws his adversary over his head.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flying pasty
Sirreverence wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour's wall.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flying porters
Cheats who obtain money by pretending to persons who have been lately robbed, that they may come fro...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flying stationers
Ballad-singers and hawkers of penny histories.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flying-fox
n. a gigantic Australian bat, Pteropus poliocephalus, Temm. It has a fetid odour anddoes great damag...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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flying-mouse
n.
See opossum-mouse and flying-phalanger.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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flying-phalanger
n.
included in the classof Phalanger (q.v.). The «flying» Phalangers «havedeveloped large parachute...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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flying-squirrel
n.
popular name for aFlying-Phalanger, Petaurus sciureus, Shaw, a marsupialwith a parachute-like fo...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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kite flying
An expression well known to mercantile men of limited means, or who are short of cash. It is a combi...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flying about
Synonymous with chop-about (which see).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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flying column
A complete and mobile force kept much on the move, for the sake of covering the designs of its own a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flying dutchman
A famous marine spectre ship, formerly supposed to haunt the Cape of Good Hope. The tradition of sea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flying jib
A light sail set before the jib, on the flying jib-boom. The third jib in large ships, as the inner ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flying-kites
The very lofty sails, which are only set in fine weather, such as skysails, royal studding-sails, an...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flying-light
The state of a ship when she has little cargo, provisions, or water on board, and is very crank.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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flying-to
Is when a vessel, from sailing free or having tacked, and her head thrown much to leeward, is coming...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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set flying
Sails that do not remain aloft when taken in, but are hauled on deck or stowed in the tops, as skysa...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Flying Horse Court
1) North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Yard
1) East out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : "Wh...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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flying jib-boom
A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Flying Horse Court, Yard
North out of Fleet Street to Serjeants Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799)....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Inn, Yard, Houndsditch
East out of Bishopsgate Street and north to Houndsditch, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate
See Foster Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Flying Horse Yard, Half Moon Alley
West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, south of Half Moon Alley (P.C. 1732-Elm...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.