Forman, Harry Buxton

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• Harry

  ·vi To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. II. Harry ·vt To <<Strip>>; to lay wast...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• harry

  A country fellow. CANT.--Old Harry; the Devil. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• harry

  to teaze. HARRIED, weary. Lane. To plunder. Northumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel

  (fl. 1470-1492) Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• country harry

  A waggoner. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• old harry

  A composition used by vintners to adulterate their wines; also the nick-name for the devil. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• harry-gawd

  a rigsby, a wild child. N ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• king harry

  a goldfinch. Norf. and SufF. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• meg-harry

  a hoyden girl ; a torn-boy. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• harry-bannings

  A north-country name for sticklebacks. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• harry-net

  A net with such small meshes, and so formed, as to take even the young and small fish. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Battersby, Harry Francis Prevost ("Francis Prevost")

  Poet, novelist, and war correspondent. Poems, Melilot (1886), Fires of Greenwood (1887). Novels, Rus...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Harry Barton's Alley

  In Coleman Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 59). John Barton and Agnes his wife are mentioned by S...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.