Elliot, Miss Jean

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• Miss

  ·noun Harm from mistake. II. Miss ·noun Mistake; error; fault. III. Miss ·noun Loss; want; felt ab...

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• miss

  A miss or kept mistress; a harlot. ...

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• Elliot, Ebenezer

  (1781-1849) Poet, b. at Masborough, Yorkshire, in his youth worked in an iron-foundry, and in 1821 ...

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• Ingelow, Jean

  (1820-1897) Poetess and novelist, dau. of a banker at Boston, Lincolnshire, pub. three vols. of poe...

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• elliot-eye

  The Elliot-eye, introduced by the Hon. Admiral Elliot, secretary of the Admiralty, is an eye worked ...

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• miss laycock

  The monosyllable. ...

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• miss nancy

  A name given to an effeminate man.--Craven Glossary. ...

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• Sinclair, Miss May

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• Symonds, Miss E.M. ("George Paston")

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• hit or miss

  To do a thing hit or miss, is to do it at all hazards; that is, with a chance of hitting or gaining,...

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• Everett-Green, Miss Evelyn

  (b. 1856) Novelist, etc. Last of the Dacres (1886), Dare Lorimer's Heritage (1892), French and Engl...

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• Harrison, Miss Jane Ellen

  LL.D., etc. (b. 1850) Writer on Greek art and religion. Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature...

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