morning drop

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• Morning

  ·adj Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, ...

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• Drop

  ·vi To fall in drops. II. Drop ·vi To fall short of a mark. III. Drop ·noun Any small pendent orna...

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• drop

  The new drop; a contrivance for executing felons at Newgate, by means of a platform, which drops fro...

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• drop

  n. (Slang.) To «have the drop on» is toforestall, gain advantage over, especially by covering with ...

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• drop

  , or droop. When a line diverges from a parallel or a curve. It is also a name generally used to t...

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• Morning-glory

  ·noun A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink,...

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• Yester-morning

  ·noun The morning of yesterday. ...

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• Star, Morning

  A name figuratively given to Christ (Rev. 22:16; comp. 2 Pet. 1:19). When Christ promises that he wi...

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• morning gun

  The gun fired from the admiral's or senior officer's ship, to announce day-break, which is answered ...

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• morning star

  An offensive weapon of the mediæval times, consisting of a staff, to which was attached an iron ball...

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• morning watch

  Those of the crew on watch from 4 to 8 A.M. ...

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• Rupert's drop

  ·- A kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. It is remarkable...

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• Toe drop

  ·add. ·- A morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated. ...

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• drop coves

  Persons who practice the fraud of dropping a ring or other article, and picking it up before the per...

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• to drop down

  To be dispirited. This expression is used by thieves to signify that their companion did not die gam...

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• new drop

  The scaffold used at Newgate for hanging of criminals; which dropping down, leaves them suspended. B...

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• drop-dry

  Completely water-tight. ...

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• cob-web morning

  a misty morning. Norf. ...

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• drop a cog

  To let fall, with design, a piece of gold or silver, in order to draw in and cheat the person who se...

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• drop astern, to

  To slacken a ship's way, so as to suffer another one to pass beyond her. Also, distancing a competit...

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• grey of the morning

  twilight, from day-break to clear light. S. ...

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• pride of the morning

  A misty dew at sunrise; a light shower; the end of the land breeze followed by a dead calm in the tr...

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• drop in the eye

  Almost drunk. ...

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• drop down a river

  Synonymous with falling (which see). ...

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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