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Bottle-nosed
·adj Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Nosed
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Nose>>.
II. Nosed ·adj Having a nose, or such a nose;
— chieflay used in compos...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Whale
·noun Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of whic...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Whale
The Hebrew word tan (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job 7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., "sea-monster"). It ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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whale
A general term for various marine animals of the order Cetacea, including the most colossal of all a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Whale
As to the signification of the Hebrew terms tan and tannin, variously rendered in the Authorized Ver...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Bottle
·noun A bundle, ·esp. of hay.
II. Bottle ·noun Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle
A vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Bottle
The Arabs keep their water, milk and other liquids in leathern bottles. These are made of goatskins....
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Hook-nosed
·adj Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
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Leaf-nosed
·noun Having a leaflike membrane on the nose;
— said of certain bats, ·esp. of the genera Phyllosto...
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Shovel-nosed
·adj Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.
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Snub-nosed
·adj Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.
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Tube-nosed
·adj Belonging to the Tubinares.
II. Tube-nosed ·adj Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of h...
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Right whale
·- The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sperm whale
·- A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper ja...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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black whale
The name by which the right whale of the south seas (Balæna australis) is often known to whalemen.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fin-whale
See finner.
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gallan whale
The largest whale which visits the Hebrides.
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greenland whale
See right whale.
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right whale
A name applied to the whale with a very large head and no dorsal fin, which yields the whalebone and...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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furrowed whale
See rorqual
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sperm whale
Otherwise known as the cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus.
A large cetacean, belonging to the divisi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whale-bird
A beautiful little bird seen hovering in flocks over the Southern Ocean, in search of the small crus...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whale-boat
A boat varying from 26 to 56 feet in length, and from 4 to 10 feet beam, sharp at both ends, and adm...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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whale-calf
The young whale.
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whale-fisheries
The places at which the capture of whales, or "whale-fishery," is carried on. The principal are the ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle green
·- A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle-nose
·noun The <<Puffin>>.
II. Bottle-nose ·noun A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Woulfe bottle
·noun A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks;
— so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle Lane
See Botolph's Lane.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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bottle-headed
Void of wit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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phos bottle
A. bottle of phosphorus: used by housebreakers to light their lanthorns. Ding the phos; throw away t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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soldier's bottle
A large one.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bottle-brush
n.
name given to various speciesof Callistemon and Melaleuca, N.O. Myrtaceae; the Purple Bottle-bru...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-gourd
n.
an Australian plant, Lagenaria vulgaris, Ser., N.O. Cucurbitaceae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-swallow
n.
a popular name for the bird Lagenoplastis ariel, otherwise called the FairyMartin. See Martin. T...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-tree
n. an Australian tree, variousspecies of Sterculia, i.q. Kurrajong (q.v.). Sonamed from its appearan...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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junk-bottle
The ordinary black glass porter-bottle.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bottle-bump
The bittern, so called on our east coast.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bottle-charts
Those on which the set of surface currents are exhibited, derived from papers found in bottles which...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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bottle-nose
, or bottle-nosed whale
A name applied to several of the smaller cetaceans of the northern seas, m...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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empty bottle
See marine officer.
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sea-bottle
The pod or vesicle of some species of sea-wrack or Fucus gigantea of Cape Horn and the Straits of Ma...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle Alley, Bottle Yard, Bishopsgate
See Brittania Place.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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hump-backed whale
A species of whalebone whale, the Megaptera longimana, which attains to 45 or 50 feet in length, and...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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japanese whale-boat
A long, open, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle-neck frame
·add. ·- An inswept frame.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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bawdy-house bottle
A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Cock and Bottle Court
East out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 122).
Not name...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.