kemp's morris

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• Kemps

  ·noun ·pl The long flower stems of the ribwort plantain (Plantago Lanceolata). ...

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• Morris

  ·noun A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanet...

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• morris

  Come, morris off; dance off, or get you gone. allusion to morris, i.e. MORISCO, or Moorish dancing. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kemp's shoes

  Would I had Kemp's shoes to throw after you. BEN JONSON. Perhaps Kemp was a man remarkable for his g...

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• Morris-chair

  ·add. ·noun A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised. ...

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• Morris-pike

  ·noun A Moorish pike. ...

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• Morris, William

  (1834-1896) Poet, artist, and socialist, b. at Walthamstow, and ed. at Marlborough School and Oxf. ...

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• Morris' Wharf

  South out of Thames Street, west of Baynard's Castle, in Castle Baynard Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755,...

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• morris-pike

  A formidable Moorish weapon, the precursor of the boarding-pike. ...

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• Morris, Sir Lewis

  (1833-1907) Poet, b. at Penrhyn, Carnarvonshire, and ed. at Sherborne and Oxf., was called to the B...

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• Andro Morris Key

  Appointed a general place for lading and discharging goods by Act of Parliament, 1559 (Strype, ed. 1...

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