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Plan
·adj A method; a way of procedure; a custom. II. Plan ·vt To form a delineation of; to <<Draught>>;...

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plan
The area or imaginary surface defined by, or within any described lines. In ship-building, the plan ...

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Body
·noun Amount; quantity; extent. II. Body ·noun A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; an...

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body
A person. A colloquial expression used both in England and America. Good may come out of evil, and ...

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body
a simpleton. N. ...

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body
The principal corps of an army, or the main strength of a fleet. ...

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American plan
·add. ·- In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other c...

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Contribution plan
·add. ·- A plan of distributing surplus by giving to each policy the excess of premiums and interest...

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horizontal plan
In ship-building, the draught of a proposed ship, showing the whole as if seen from above. ...

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sheer-plan
The draught of the side of a proposed ship, showing the length, depth, rake, water-lines, &c. ...

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vertical plan
See orthographic projection. ...

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Torpedo body
·add. ·- An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. ...

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body snatchers
Bum bailiffs. ...

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poor body!
i. e. Poor Creature. Durham. ...

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after-body
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...

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body-hoops
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...

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body-post
An additional stern-post introduced at the fore-part of an aperture cut in the dead-wood in a ship f...

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cant-body
An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...

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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth. ...

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fore-body
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead. ...

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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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half-breadth plan
In ship-building, the same as floor-plan. ...

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Hollar's Plan of London
Wenceslaus Hollar was appointed by the King to make exact plan and survey of the City after the Fire...

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plan of the transoms
The horizontal appearance of them, to which the moulds are made, and the bevellings taken. ...

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body, of a place
In fortification, the space inclosed by the enceinte, or line of bastions and curtains. ...

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furling in a body
A method of rolling up a top-sail only practised in harbour, by gathering all the loose part of the ...

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longitude of a celestial body
An arc of the ecliptic, contained between the first point of Aries and a circle of longitude passing...

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terminal velocity of any given body
The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...

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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson. ...

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hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body
A short clumsy person, either male or female. ...

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