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• Neaped

  ·adj Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tid...

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• neaped

  The situation of a ship which, within a bar-harbour, is left aground on the spring-tides so that she...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Be

  ·vi To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence. II. Be ·vi To <<Signify>>; to re...

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• Be-

  ·- A prefix, originally the same word as by;. II. Be- ·- To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, b...

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• be

  (Ang. Sax. beo, 1st person sing. and 1st, 2d, and 3d plur. See Rask's Gram. p. 84), instead of am an...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Be-all

  ·noun The whole; all that is to be. ...

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• Would-be

  ·adj Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet. ...

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• be-dundered

  Stupified with noise. ...

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• o be joyful

  I'll make you sing O be joyful on the other side of your mouth; a threat, implying the party threate...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to be driving at

  'What are you driving at?' that is, what are you about? what object have you in view? A colloquial e...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• to be among the missing

  To be absent, to leave, to run away. There comes old David for my militia fine; I don't want to see...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• to be on one's taps

  is to be always ready on one's feet, literally on one's shoes; a metaphor borrowed from the shoemake...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sorrow shall be his sops

  He shall repent this. Sorrow go by me; a common expletive used by presbyterians in Ireland. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• if so be as how

  A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• happy man be his dole!

  a good wish ; as, may happiness be his lot. North. ...

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

• not born in the woods to be scared by an owl

  Too much used to danger, or threats, to be easily frightened. I just puts my finger to my nose, and...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born under a threepenny halfpenny planet, never to be worth a groat

  Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose