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dick
That happened in the reign of queen Dick, i. e. never: said of any absurd old story. I am as queer a...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Queen
·noun The wife of a king. II. Queen ·vi To act the part of a queen. III. Queen ·noun A playing car...

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Queen
No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings o...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Queen
This title is properly applied to the queen-mother, since in an Oriental household it is not the wif...

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donkey dick
A he, or jack ass: called donkey, perhaps, from the Spanish or don-like gravity of that animal, inti...

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whistling dick
n. Tasmanian name for a Shrike-Thrush. Called also Duke – Willy. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Austral...

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Queen olive
·add. ·- Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size ...

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Queen truss
·- A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss. ...

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Queen-post
·noun One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. ·see King-...

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Elizabeth, Queen
(1533-1603) Was one of the scholar-women of her time, being versed in Latin, Greek, French, and Ita...

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Queen Square
West out of Aldersgate Street, at No. 159a, to Bartholomew Close. In Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon ...

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Queen Street
South out of Cheapside at No.69, across Cannon Street to Upper Thames Street (P.O. Directory). In Vi...

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queen street
A mart governed by his wife, is said to live in Queen street, or at the sign of the Queen's Head. ...

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hell fire dick
The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...

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dick-a-dilver
A name for the periwinkle on our eastern coasts. ...

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Queen of heaven
(Jer. 7:18; 44:17, 25), the moon, worshipped by the Assyrians as the receptive power in nature. ...

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Little Queen Street
See Paved Alley, Leadenhall, and Queen's Colledge Passage Square. ...

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New Queen Street
See Queen Street, Cheapside. ...

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Queen Street Place
South out of Upper Thames Street, at No.68, to Southwark Bridge. In Vintry Ward (P.O. Directory). F...

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Queen Victoria Street.-
West from the Mansion House to Blackfriars Bridge (P.O. Directory). In Cheap, Cordwainer, Bread Stre...

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Queen Of Heaven
(Jeremiah 7:18; 45:17,18,19,25) is the moon Ashtaroth or Astarte to whom worshiped as Hebrew women o...

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Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick
(1784-1848) Novelist and miscellaneous writer, s. of a Scottish baronet, wrote two novels, Lochandh...

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Statue of Queen Anne
Facing the west door of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the Church-yard (O.S. 1880). Architect, F. Bird. ...

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Weld Court, Queen Street
See Well Court. ...

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queen anne's free gift
A sum of money formerly granted to surgeons annually, in addition to their monthly twopences from ea...

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Queen Street, Royal Mint Street
South out of Royal Mint Street to Little Tower Hill (W. Stow, 1722-O.S. 1894-6). Removed for the co...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.