To walk or crawl up the wall; to be scored up at a public-nouse. Wall-eyed, having an eye with little or no sight, all white like a plaistered wall.
·noun The side of a level or drift. II. Wall ·noun The country rock bounding a vein laterally. III...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Cities were surrounded by walls, as distinguished from "unwalled villages" (Ezek. 38:11; Lev. 25:29-...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
for well, is a common vulgarism in the Northern States. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
he lies by the wall ; spoken of a person dead but not buried. Norf. and Sun . ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A bank of earth to restrain the current and overflowing of water. (See sea-bank.) ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. ...
·add. ·- A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending fro...
·noun The alewife; — called also wall-eyed herring. II. Wall-eye ·noun A California surf fish (Hol...
·adj Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. ...
·noun The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. ...
·adj Having sides nearly perpendicular; — said of certain vessels to distinguish them from those ha...
See Wall of London. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
West out of the Minories (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). Former names: Wall's Court" (O. and M. 1677-St...
, or wale-knot. A particular sort of large knot raised upon the end of a rope, by untwisting the s...
A very heavy powerful musket, for use in fortified places. ...
The sides of a ship continuing nearly perpendicular down to the surface of the water, like a wall. I...
On the south side of London Wall at No. 13. In Cripplegate Ward Within. The church stood originally...
West from Old Broad Street to Cripplegate (P.O. Directory). A street on the line of the old Wall of...
Out of London Wall at No. 31 (P.O. Directory). First mention: L.C.C. List, 1901. ...
On the north side of London Wall, at Blomfield Street. In Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory). Fir...
Considerable difference of opinion exists as to the date when the walls that encircled the ancient C...
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...
On the north side of London Wall at No. 85 (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street Ward. Parish extends in...
See Leathersellers' Buildings. ...
See St. Augustine Papey. ...
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). First mention: In Ward...
Out of London Wall, in parish of All Hallows, London Wall (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Called in P.C. S...
In London Wall by Moorgate opposite the northern end of Coleman Street, erected 1517 at the charges ...
i. c. is dead. Spoken between the time of death and burial. Norf. and Suff. ...
At No. 6o Fleet Street (Lockie, 1810). Named after the public house so called. The name is said to...
A chapel or hermitage adjoining the north-west corner of the Wall of London near Cripplegate in Farr...
See Red Lion Court7. ...
See Drapers' Buildings. ...
See White Horse Yard. ...
To run up a score, which in alehouses is commonly recorded with chalk on the walls of the bar. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose