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Bilge
·noun Bilge water. II. Bilge ·vt To cause to bulge. III. Bilge ·vi To <<Bulge>>. IV. Bilge ·noun ...

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bilge
, or bulge That part of the floor in a ship on either side of the keel which approaches nearer t...

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Fever
·vt To put into a fever; to affect with fever; as, a fevered lip. II. Fever ·noun Excessive excitem...

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Fever
(Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered ...

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bilge-blocks
See sliding bilge-blocks. ...

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bilge-coads
In launching a ship, same with sliding-planks. ...

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bilge-free
A cask so stowed as to rest entirely on its beds, keeping the lower part of the bilge at least the t...

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bilge-keels
Used for vessels of very light draught and flattish bottoms, to make them hold a better wind, also t...

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bilge-keelsons
These are fitted inside of the bilge, to afford strength where iron, ores, and other heavy cargo are...

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bilge-pieces
Synonymous with bilge-keels. ...

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bilge-planks
Certain thick strengthenings on the inner and outer lines of the bilge, to secure the shiftings as w...

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bilge-pump
A small pump used for carrying off the water which may lodge about the lee-bilge, so as not to be un...

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bilge-trees
Another name for bilge-coads. ...

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bilge-water
The rain or sea-water which occasionally enters a vessel, and running down to her floor, remains in ...

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Breakbone fever
·- ·see <<Dengue>>. ...

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Buck fever
·add. ·- Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in h...

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Chagres fever
·add. ·- A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama. ...

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Lazaret fever
·add. ·- Typhus fever. ...

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Shoddy fever
·add. ·- A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoea and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust. ...

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barrel fever
He died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking. ...

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bay fever
A term of ridicule applied to convicts, who sham illness, to avoid being sent to Botany Bay. ...

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hempen fever
A man who was hanged is said to have died of a hempen fever; and, in Dorsetshire, to have been stabb...

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lag fever
A term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to av...

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lombard fever
Sick of the lombard fever; i.e. of the idles. ...

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fever-bark
n. another name for Bitter-bark (q.v.). ...

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gold-fever
n. the desire to obtain gold bydigging. The word is more especially applied to the periodbetween 18...

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yellow fever
sc. the gold-fever. 1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 47: «Evident symptoms of the retu...

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fever bush
(Laurus benzoin.) An aromatic shrub with a flavor resembling Benzoin.--Bigelow's Flora Bostoniensis....

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yellow fever
A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloure...

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bilge and chimb
See bouge and chine ...

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sliding bilge-blocks
Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. ...

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bung-up and bilge-free
A cask so placed that its bung-stave is uppermost, and it rests entirely on its beds. ...

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