beef-kid

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• Kid

  ·noun A young goat. II. Kid ·vt ·see <<Kiddy>>, ·vt. III. Kid ·noun Gloves made of kid. IV. Kid ·...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Kid

  The young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic la...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• kid

  A little dapper fellow. A child. The blowen has napped the kid. The girl is with child. TO KID To ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kid

  A large box in fishing vessels into which fish are thrown as they are caught. In New England. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• kid

  a small faggot of brush-wood. N. ...

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

• kid

  A presuming man. ♦ Kiddy fellow, neat in his dress. Also, a compartment in some fishing-vessels, w...

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• Kid

  [Goat] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Beef

  ·noun Applied colloquially to human flesh. II. Beef ·adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. I...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• beef

  To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. Cant.--To be in a man's beef; to wound h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef

  A figurative term for strength. ♦ More beef! more men on. ...

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• kid lay

  Rogues who make it their business to defraud young apprentices, or errand-boys, of goods committed t...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mess-kid

  A wooden tub for holding cooked victuals or cocoa. ...

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• Beef-witted

  ·noun Stupid; dull. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bully beef

  ·add. ·v Pickled or canned beef. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mess beef

  ·add. ·- Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest pl...

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• Beef Market

  In Leadenhall Market (P.C. 1732). ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• beef eater

  A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupb...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hung beef

  A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fello...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef-wood

  n. the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...

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

• albany beef

  Sturgeon; a fish which abounds in the Hudson river; so called by the people in the State of New York...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• martlemas-beef

  beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpo...

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

• albany beef

  A name for the sturgeon of the Hudson River, where it is taken in quantity for commerce. ...

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• jerked beef

  Charqui. Meat cured by drying in the open air, with or without salt. Also, the name of an American c...

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• roast-beef dress

  Full uniform; probably from its resemblance to that of the royal beef-eaters. ...

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• roast beef of old england

  A popular air, by which officers are summoned to the dinner-table. ...

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