An alley leading from St. Martin's church-yard to Round-court, chiefly inhabited by cooks, who cut off ready-dressed meat of all sorts, and also sell soup.
·noun A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Keep your breath to cool your porridge; i. e. held your tongue. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun ·see <<Isle>>, ·noun, 2. II. Island ·noun Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an i...
(Heb. i, "dry land," as opposed to water) occurs in its usual signification (Isa. 42:4, 10, 12, 15, ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
He drank out of the bottle till he saw the island; the island is the rising bottom of a wine bottle,...
May be simply described as a tract of land entirely surrounded with water; but the whole continuous ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun <<Peninsula>>. ...
·adj Of or pertaining to certain islands along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia; as, sea-isla...
That which is protected from the violence of the sea by one or more islands or islets screening its ...
South-east out of the northern portion of Gravel Lane, Houndsditch, in Portsoken Ward (Strype, Ed. 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
See Westmoreland Buildings. ...
n. See pine. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
A name given to a great quantity of ice collected into one solid mass and floating upon the sea; the...