blind-harbour

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• harbour

  A general name given to any safe sea-port. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that it sh...

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• Blind

  ·noun A halting place. II. Blind ·adj Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. III. Blind ·n...

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• Blind

  Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be tre...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• blind

  A feint, pretence, or shift. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind

  I. A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus). ...

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• Harbour Lane

  South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames, west of Grantham's lane in the parish of St. Martin ...

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• bank-harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by banks of mud, gravel, sand, shingle, or silt...

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• close harbour

  That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...

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• harbour-dues

  See port-charges. ...

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• harbour-gaskets

  Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at equal distances on the yard, for showing off a ...

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• harbour-guards

  Men detached from the ordinary, as a working party. ...

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• harbour-log

  That part of the log-book which consists solely of remarks, and relates only to transactions while t...

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• harbour-master

  An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see that the ships are properly berthed, and th...

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• harbour-reach

  The reach or stretch of a winding river which leads direct to the harbour. ...

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• harbour-watch

  A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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• hidden harbour

  That of which the outer points so overlap as to cause the coast to appear to be continuous. ...

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• island harbour

  That which is protected from the violence of the sea by one or more islands or islets screening its ...

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• river-harbour

  That which is situated in the channel of a river, especially such as are at the embouchure with a ba...

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• shoaled-harbour

  That which is secured from the violence of the sea, by banks, bars, or shoals to sea-ward. ...

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• tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• tide or tidal harbour

  A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood. ...

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• Blind reader

  ·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. ...

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• Color-blind

  ·adj Affected with color blindness. ·see Color blindness, under Color, ·noun. ...

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• Hoodman-blind

  ·noun An old term for blindman's buff. ...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Snow-blind

  ·adj Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. ...

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• Star-blind

  ·adj Half blind. ...

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• Stock-blind

  ·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind. ...

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• Stone-blind

  ·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind. ...

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• 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...

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• Blind, Mathilde

  (1841-1896) Poetess, b. at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and pub. several books of po...

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• blind cheeks

  The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind excuse

  A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or fre...

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• blind harpers

  Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c. ...

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• blind cupid

  The backside. ...

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• blind shark

  or Sand Shark ,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.). 1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...

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

• blind-worm

  the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S. ...

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• blind-bucklers

  Those fitted for the hawse-holes, which have no aperture for the cable, and therefore used at sea to...

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• blind-rock

  One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms. ...

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• blind-shell

  One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...

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• blind-stakes

  A sort of river-weir. ...

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• Cole-Harbour Lane

  1) A lane leading south out of Upper Thames Street at No. 92 to the Thames at Cole Harbour Stairs, i...

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• Cole Harbour Stairs

  At the south end of Coleharbour in Dowgate Ward (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). The wharf seems to hav...

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• macquarie harbour vine

  See grape, macquarie harbour ...

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• grape, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine (q.v.), n. name given to the climbing shrub Muehlenbeckia adpressra, Meis...

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• macquarie harbour grape

  or Macquarie Harbour Vine, n. the Tasmanian name for Muhlenbeckiaadpressa, Meissn. N.O. Polygonacea...

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• vine, macquarie harbour

  or Macquarie Harbour Grape (q.v.). Same as Native Ivy. See Ivy. 1891. `Chambers' Encyclopaedia,' s...

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• harbour-duty men

  Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...

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• Blind Chapel Court

  See Blanch Appleton Court. ...

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• cupid, blind cupid

  A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind. See b...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind-your-eyes

  n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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• to go it blind

  To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...

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• bar of a harbour

  See bar of a port ...

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• luff into a harbour, to

  To sail into it, shooting head to wind, gradually. A ship is accordingly said to spring her luff whe...

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• thwart-marks, to a harbour

  Two objects on the land, which, brought into line with each other, mark the safe course between shoa...

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