neck verse

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• Verse

  ·noun A piece of poetry. II. Verse ·vt To tell in verse, or poetry. III. Verse ·noun A short divis...

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• Neck

  ·vt & ·vi To kiss and caress amorously. II. Neck ·noun the point where the base of the stem of a pl...

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• Neck

  Used sometimes figuratively. To "lay down the neck" (Rom. 16:4) is to hazard one's life. Threatening...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• neck

  The elbow or part connecting the blade and socket of a bayonet. ♦ Goose-neck, at the ends of booms...

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• arse verse

  arse verse, a Tuscan-Latin incantation against fire : ARSE VERSE averte ignem significat, Paul. ex ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• Deer-neck

  ·noun A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse. ...

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• Volcanic neck

  ·add. ·- A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and late...

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• neck stamper

  The boy who collects the pots belonging to an alehouse, sent out with beer to private houses. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• neck weed

  Hemp. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• van-neck

  Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ring-neck

  n. the equivalent of Jackaroo (q.v.). A term used in the back blocks in reference to thewhite colla...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• goose-neck

  A curved iron, fitted outside the after-chains to receive a spare spar, properly the swinging boom, ...

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• Bottle-neck frame

  ·add. ·- An inswept frame. ...

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• wry neck day

  Hanging day. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• neck of land

  Dividing two portions of water, or it may be the neck of a peninsula. ...

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• shot in the neck

  Drunk. A Southern phrase. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• neck of a gun

  The narrow part where the chase meets the swell of the muzzle. ...

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• neck of the cascable

  The part between the swell of the breech of a gun and the button. Its narrowest part within the butt...

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