Lawyer

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• Lawyer

  ·noun The bowfin (Amia calva). II. Lawyer ·noun The burbot (Lota maculosa). III. Lawyer ·noun The ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• lawyer

  n. One of the English provincial usesof this word is for a thorny stem of a briar or bramble. InNew...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lawyer

  (Himantonus. Black-necked Stilt. Audubon, Ornith.) A small bird which lives on our shores; known als...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Lawyer

  The title "lawyer" is generally supposed to be equivalent to the title "scribe." The scribe expounde...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Penang lawyer

  ·add. ·- A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida). ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sea lawyer

  ·- The gray snapper. ·see under <<Snapper>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• sea lawyer

  A shark. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bush-lawyer

  n. 1) A Bramble.See Lawyer. 2) Name often used for a layman who fancies he knows all aboutthe law ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lawyer-palm

  See lawyer ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lawyer-vine

  See lawyer ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lawyer-cane

  Lawyer-Palm, andLawyer-Vine See lawyer. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• vine, lawyer

  See lawyer. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lake lawyer

  (Genus, amia. Linnæus.) The Western Mud-fish. It is found in Lakes Erie and Ontario, where it is kno...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lake-lawyer

  A voracious fish in the lakes of America, called also the mud-fish. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• penang lawyer

  A cane, with the administration of which debts were wont to be settled at Pulo-Penang. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• philadelphia lawyer

  "Enough to puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer" is a common nautical phrase for an inconsistent story. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sea-lawyer

  An idle litigious 'longshorer, more given to question orders than to obey them. One of the pests of ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book