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Joyful
·adj Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. ...

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Be
·vi To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence. II. Be ·vi To <<Signify>>; to re...

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Be-
·- A prefix, originally the same word as by;. II. Be- ·- To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, b...

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be
(Ang. Sax. beo, 1st person sing. and 1st, 2d, and 3d plur. See Rask's Gram. p. 84), instead of am an...

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O
O, o, the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, corresponding to the Gr. ο and ω. The Latin langu...

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o
ō (long also before an initial vowel: I o ego, Ov. M. 8, 51; Hor. A. P. 301; but also short: ŏ...

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o
ō (rarely, before a vowel o, V.), interj.of feeling or surprise, O! oh!: O vir fortis es, T.:...

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O
·noun A cipher; zero. II. O ·adj <<One>>. III. O ·noun The letter O, or its sound. ...

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O'
·prep A shortened form of of or on. ...

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o
The fourth class of rating on Lloyd's books for the comparative excellence of merchant ships. But in...

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o!
or ho! An interjection commanding attention or possibly the cessation of any action. ...

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Be-all
·noun The whole; all that is to be. ...

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Would-be
·adj Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet. ...

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be-dundered
Stupified with noise. ...

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be-neaped
The situation of a vessel when she is aground at the height of spring-tides. (See neaped.) ...

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kind o'
In a manner, as it were. A sort of qualifying expression; as, 'She made game on it kind o'.'--Forby....

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to be driving at
'What are you driving at?' that is, what are you about? what object have you in view? A colloquial e...

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I O U
·- A paper having on it these letters, with a sum named, and duly signed; — in use in England as an...

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Jack-o'-lantern
·noun ·see Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. ...

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Light-o'-love
·noun Hence: A light or wanton woman. II. Light-o'-love ·noun An old tune of a dance, the name of w...

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Tam-o'-shanter
·add. ·noun A kind of Scotch cap of wool, worsted, or the like, having a round, flattish top much wi...

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Tom o' Bedlam
·add. ·- Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, ·Eng.; hen...

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Vitre-o-electic
·adj Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity. ...

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jack-o-legs
a clasp knife. N. ...

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back-o'-beyond
Said of an unknown distance. ...

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jack o' lantern
The corpo santo, or St. Elmo's light, is sometimes so called. ...

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to be among the missing
To be absent, to leave, to run away. There comes old David for my militia fine; I don't want to see...

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to be on one's taps
is to be always ready on one's feet, literally on one's shoes; a metaphor borrowed from the shoemake...

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Cat o' nine tails
·- ·see under <<Cat>>. ...

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Hop-o'-my-thumb
·noun ·Alt. of Hop-thumb. ...

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Will-o'-the-wisp
·noun ·see Ignis fatuus. ...

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dub o' th' hick
A lick on the head. ...

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hop-o-my-thumb
A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shou...

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all-a-taunt-o
See a'taunto ...

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cat o' nine tails
An instrument of punishment used on board ships in the navy; it is commonly of nine pieces of line o...

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john-o'-groat's buckie
A northern name for the Cypræa pediculus, a small shell found on our sea-coasts. ...

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scum-o'-the-sky
Thin atmospheric vapours. ...

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sorrow shall be his sops
He shall repent this. Sorrow go by me; a common expletive used by presbyterians in Ireland. ...

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if so be as how
A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England. ...

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happy man be his dole!
a good wish ; as, may happiness be his lot. North. ...

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not born in the woods to be scared by an owl
Too much used to danger, or threats, to be easily frightened. I just puts my finger to my nose, and...

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born under a threepenny halfpenny planet, never to be worth a groat
Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. ...

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