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Bloody
·vt To stain with blood.
II. Bloody ·adj Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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bloody
A favourite word used by the thieves in swearing, as bloody eyes, bloody rascal.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Flag
·noun A flat stone used for paving.
II. Flag ·vt To lay with flags of flat stones.
III. Flag ·vt T...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flag
(Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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flag
A groat. CANT.--The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alludi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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flag
A general name for the distinguishing colours of any nation. Also, a certain banner by which an admi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Flag
There are two Hebrew words rendered "flag" in our Bible:
• A word of Egyptian origin, and denoting ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Bloody flux
·- The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bloody hand
·- A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the Un...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bloody sweat
·- A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly preval...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bloody-minded
·adj Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bloody sweat
The sign and token of our Lord's great agony (Luke 22:44).
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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bloody back
A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Flux, Bloody
(Acts 28:8) the same as our dysentery, which in the East is, though sometimes sporadic, generally ep...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Sweat, Bloody
One of the physical phenomena attending our Lord's agony in the garden of Gethsemane is described by...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Palmetto flag
·add. ·- Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in Novem...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pilot flag
·add. ·- The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union j...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water flag
·- A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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blue flag
He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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australian flag
n.
Hot climate and countrywork have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a beltor leather ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cooper's-flag
n.
another name in New Zealandfor Raupo (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native flag
n.
See under flax, native,and flax, New Zealand.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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flag-officer
A term synonymous with admiral.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag-share
The admiral's share (one-eighth) in all captures made by any vessels within the limits of his comman...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag-ship
A ship bearing an admiral's flag.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag-staff
In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sick-flag
The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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yellow-flag
The signal of quarantine.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag of truce
A white flag, hoisted to denote a wish to parley between the belligerent parties, but so frequently ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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foul-weather flag
Denotes danger for boats leaving the shore; watermen's fares increase with these signals.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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hoisting the flag
An admiral assuming his command "hoists his flag," and is saluted with a definite number of guns by ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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rawhead and bloody bones
A bull beggar, or scarechild, with which foolish nurses terrify crying brats.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fly of a flag
The breadth from the staff to the extreme end that flutters loose in the wind. If an ensign, the par...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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flag-side of a split fish
The side without the bone.
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The Sailor's Word-Book