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Vengeance
·noun Harm; mischief.
II. Vengeance ·noun Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offens...
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Belly
·noun The <<Womb>>.
II. Belly ·vt To cause to swell out; to <<Fill>>.
III. Belly ·noun The under p...
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Belly
The seat of the carnal affections (Titus 1:12; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 16:18). The word is used symbolicall...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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belly
His eye was bigger than his belly; a saying of a person at a table, who takes more on his plate than...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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belly
The swell of a sail. The inner or hollow part of compass timber; the outside is called the back. To ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Whip
·vt The long pennant. ·see Pennant (a).
II. Whip ·vt To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
III....
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whip
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A single rope rove through a single block to hoist in light articles. Where greater and steadie...
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whip upon whip
A sort of easy purchase, much used in colliers. It consists of one whip applied to the falls of anot...
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Belly-god
·noun One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an <<Epicure>>.
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Belly-pinched
·adj Pinched with hunger; starved.
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Gor-belly
·noun A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
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Pot-belly
·noun A protuberant belly.
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Speckled-belly
·noun The <<Gadwall>>.
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belly cheat
An apron.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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belly plea
The plea of pregnancy, generally adduced by female felons capitally convicted, which they take care ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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belly timber
Food of all sorts.
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yellow belly
A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there.
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silver-belly
n.
name given:
1) in New SouthWales, to the fish Silver-Bream (q.v.);
2) in Tasmania,to various s...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-belly
n.
In New South Wales, the nameis given to a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus;called also Golde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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belly-wark
the gripes. N. They also say TOOTH-WARK, and HEAD-WARK.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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yellow belly
a person born in the Fens of Lincolnshire. L.
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belly-band
A strip of canvas, half way between the close-reef and the foot of square sails, to strengthen them....
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belly-guy
A tackle applied half-way up sheers, or long spars that require support in the middle. Frequently ap...
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belly-mat
See paunch-mat.
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belly-stay
Used half-mast down when a mast requires support; as belly-guy, above.
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yellow-belly
A name given to a person born in the fens along our eastern shores: also occasionally to half-castes...
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Sea whip
·- A gorgonian having a simple stem.
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Whip-shaped
·adj Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or s...
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whip jacks
The tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to whip off
To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stock-whip
n.
whip for driving cattle.See quotations.
1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 100:
«The s...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-bird
n.
See coach-whip bird.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-snake
n.
or Little Whip-Snake.See under snake.
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whip-stick
n.
variety of dwarf Eucalypt; one of the Mallees; forming thick scrub.
1874. M. C., `Explorers,' p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whip-tail
n.
1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation.
2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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penny-whip
very small beer. Lane, a penny per quart.
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coach-whip
The pendant.
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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whip-staff
See whipII
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whip-jack
An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.)
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whip-ray
A ray with a long tail ending in a very fine point. It is armed with a dangerous serrated spine, jag...
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whip-saw
The largest of that class of useful instruments, being that generally used at the saw-pit.
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Whip-poor-will
·noun An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker;
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Whip-tom-kelly
·noun A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida;
— called also black-whisker...
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to whip the cock
A piece of sport practised at wakes, horse-races, and fairs in Leicestershire: a cock being tied or ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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coach-whip bird
n.
Psophodes crepitans,V. and H. (see Gould's `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. pl. 15);Black-throate...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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little whip-snake
See snake
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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knight of the whip
A coachman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose