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Spouting
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Spout>>. ...

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spouting
Theatrical declamation. ...

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Club
·vt To beat with a club. II. Club ·vi To drift in a current with an anchor out. III. Club ·vt To t...

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club
A meeting or association, where each man is to spend an equal and stated sum, called his club. ...

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Club-rush
·noun A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. ·see <<Bulr...

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Club-shaped
·adj Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects. ...

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Country club
·add. ·- A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to o...

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Glee club
·add. ·- A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, ·etc...

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catch club
A member of the patch club; a bum bailiff. ...

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club law
Argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken stick is a better plea than an act of parliament. ...

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pizzy club
A society held, A. D, 1744, at the sign of the Tower, on Tower Hill: president, Don Pizzaro. ...

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club-tail
(Genus alosa.) The common shad, the fatter portion of which have the tail swollen, and on the coast ...

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club-law
The rule of violence and strength. ...

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City Carlton Club
On the east side of St. Swithin Lane, at Nos. 24-27 (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook Ward. The City Con...

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New City Club
On the east side of George Yard, Lombard Street. In Langbourn Ward (O.S.). Site now occupied by off...

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calves head club
A club instituted by the Independents and Presbyterians, to commemorate the decapitation of King Cha...

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kill care club
The members of this club, styled also the Sons of Sound Sense and Satisfaction, met at their fortres...

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kit-cat club
A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. m...

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club-haul, to
A method of tacking a ship by letting go the lee-anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails, whi...

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royal yacht club
A very useful and honourable association. (See yacht club, royal.) ...

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yacht club, royal
An institution embodied by a number of noblemen and gentlemen about the year 1820, to which certain ...

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City of London Club
On the east side of Old Broad Street, at No. 19 (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street Ward. Erected 183...

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