keeping cully

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• Cully

  ·noun To trick, cheat, or impose on; to <<Deceive>>. II. Cully ·noun A person easily deceived, tric...

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• cully

  A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Keeping

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Keep>>. II. Keeping ·noun A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; ...

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• bleeding cully

  One who parts easily with his money, or bleeds freely. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dark cully

  A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flogging cully

  A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Home-keeping

  ·noun A staying at home. II. Home-keeping ·adj Staying at home; not gadding. ...

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• Safe-keeping

  ·noun The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody. ...

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• keeping-room

  A common sitting-room; the parlor in New England. The term is chiefly used in the interior, although...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keeping a watch

  To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• keeping her way

  The force of steady motion through the water, continued after the power which gave it has varied or ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• keeping the sea

  The term formerly used when orders were issued for the array of the inhabitants of the sea-coasts. ...

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• keeping a good offing

  To keep well off shore while under sail, so as to be clear of danger should the wind suddenly shift ...

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• keeping full for stays

  A necessary precaution to give the sails full force, in aid of the rudder when going about. ...

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• head cully of the pass

  The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from al...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose