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Friday
·noun The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday. ...

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friday
The dies infaustus, on which old seamen were desirous of not getting under weigh, as ill-omened. ...

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Face
·vi To present a face or front. II. Face ·noun The style or cut of a type or font of type. III. Fa...

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Face
Means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the "face [R.V.,...

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face
The edge of a sharp instrument. Also, the word of command to soldiers, marines, and small-arm men, t...

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Black Friday
·add. ·- Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when ...

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Friday Street
South out of Cheapside across Watling Street and Cannon Street to Old Fish Street (P.O. Directory). ...

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Tallow-face
·noun One who has a sickly, pale complexion. ...

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White-face
·noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; — called also white-b...

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buck's face
A cuckold. ...

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carbuncle face
A red face, full of pimples. ...

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face-making
Begetting children. To face it out; to persist in a falsity. No face but his own: a saying of one wh...

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frosty face
One pitted with the small pox. ...

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hatchet face
A long thin face. ...

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mossy face
The mother of all saints. ...

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rich face
or NOSE A red pimpled, face. ...

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pig-face
Pig-faces, and Pig's-face,or Pig's-faces. Names given to an indigenous «iceplant,» Mesembryanthemum...

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white-face
n. a name applied to the Australianbird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould. Another species isthe Chestnut...

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after-face
See back of the post. ...

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face-piece
A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the fore-part, to assist the conversion of the ...

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Little Friday Street
West out of Basing Lane to Friday Street, in Bread Street Ward (Elmes, 1831). In O.S.1848-51 "Little...

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(St.) Margaret Friday Street
See St. Margaret Moses. ...

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(St.) Matthew Friday Street
On the east side of Friday Street in Bread Street Ward and Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1880). Firs...

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jack nasty face
A sea term, signifying a common sailor. ...

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to run one's face
To make use of one's credit. 'To run one's face for a thing,' is to get it on tick. Any one who can...

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jack nasty-face
A cook's assistant. ...

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Bell Inn, Friday Street
On the West side of Friday Street at No.13, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831). The ...

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face of a gun
The surface of the metal at the extremity of the muzzle. ...

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Blew Boar Court, Friday Street
See Blue Boar Court. ...

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The Bolt and Tunne, Friday Street
See Blue Boar Court. ...

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