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Round-up
·add. ·noun A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, s round-up of criminals.
II. Round-u...
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Bring
·vt To <<Convey>>; to <<Move>>; to carry or conduct.
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bring up, to
To cast anchor.
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met up with
for overtook.--Sherwood's Georgia.
Mich. The common abbreviation fur Michigan.
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Turn
·noun Monthly courses; menses.
II. Turn ·noun A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
III. Turn ·vi To...
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With
·noun ·see <<Withe>>.
II. With ·prep To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contras...
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with
An iron instrument fitted to the end of a boom or mast, with a ring to it, through which another boo...
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Round
·noun A circular dance.
II. Round ·adv On all sides; around.
III. Round ·vi To go round, as a guar...
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round
v. trans.
contraction of the verb to round-up, to bring a scattered herd together; used inall grazi...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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round
'To come or get round one,' in popular language, is to gain advantage over one by flattery or decept...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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round
♦ To bear round up. To go before the wind.
♦ To round a point, is to steer clear of and go round i...
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will, with a
With all zeal and energy.
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with a will
Pull all together.
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up-a-day
A fondling expression of a nurse to a child, when she takes it up in her arms, or lifts it over some...
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up with the helm
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...
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catch a turn there
Belay quickly.
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turn, to catch a
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast.
...
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turn, to take or catch a
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast.
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turn a turtle, to
To take the animal by seizing a flipper, and throwing him on his back, which renders him quite helpl...
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Up
·prep <<Upon>>.
II. Up ·adv Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapon...
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round-turn in the hawse
A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...
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Ampere turn
·add. ·- A unit equal to the product of one complete convolution (of a coiled conductor) into one am...
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Re-turn
·vt & ·vi To turn again.
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Sea turn
·- A breeze, gale, or mist from the sea.
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Turn-buckle
·noun A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.
II. Turn-buck...
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Turn-out
·noun Net quantity of produce yielded.
II. Turn-out ·noun The aggregate number of persons who have ...
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Turn-outs
·pl of Turn-out.
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Turn-sick
·adj <<Giddy>>.
II. Turn-sick ·noun A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy....
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to turn in
To go to bed. Originally a seaman's phrase, but now common on land.
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land-turn
A wind that blows in the night, at certain times, in most hot countries.
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pike-turn
See chevaux de frise.
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sea-turn
A tack into the offing.
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turn ahead!
A self-explanatory order to the engineer, in regulating the movement of a steamer.
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turn the hands up, to
To summon the entire crew on deck.
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to speak with
To rob. I spoke with the cull on the cherry-coloured prancer; I robbed the man on the black horse. C...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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gone with
for become of. 'What is gone with it' 'or with him,' for What has become of it or him?--Sherwood's G...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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great with
Intimate with; high in favor with.--Craven Glossary. Dr. Webster notices this word in the same sense...
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round up of the transoms
That segment of a circle to which they are sided, or of beams to which they are moulded.
...
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A
A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, correspond...
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a
a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
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A
A. a. as an abbreviation, 1 for the praenomen Aulus.
2 for Absolvo, on the voting-tablet of a jud...
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A
·- Of.
II. A ·prep In; on; at; by.
III. A ·- An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter.
I...
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·- A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior...
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·- A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on ...
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A
Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last. These letters occur in the text...
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a
As for example the word alarm, alarum, a bell, from the German lärm; but the military alarm on a dru...
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Quarter round
·- An <<Ovolo>>.
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Round-arm
·adj Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
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Round-backed
·adj Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
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Round-shouldered
·adj Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
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Round Court
1) In Blackfriars (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) South out of Bethlem t...
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round dealing
Plain, honest dealing.
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round robin
A mode of signing remonstrances practised by sailors on board the king's ships, wherein their names ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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round sum
A considerable sum.
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round about
An instrument used in housebreaking. This instrument has not been long in use. It will cut a round p...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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round mouth
The fundament. Brother round mouth, speaks; he has let a fart.
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round yam
n.
i.q. Burdekin Vine.See under vine.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yam, round
n.
i.q. Burdekin Vine, under vine.
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to knock round
To go about.
I'm going to New York and Boston, and all about thar, and spend the summer until picki...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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round-rimmers
Hats with a round rim; hence, those who wear them. In the city of New York, a name applied to a larg...
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haul round
Said when the wind is gradually shifting towards any particular point of the compass. Edging round a...
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luff round
, or luff a-lee.
The extreme of the movement, by which it is intended to throw the ship's head up ...
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round-aft
The outward curve or segment of a circle, that the stern partakes of from the wing transom upwards.
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round dozen
A punishment term for thirteen lashes.
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round-house
A name given in East Indiamen and other large merchant ships, to square cabins built on the after-pa...
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round-ribbed
A vessel of burden with very little run, and a flattish bottom, the ribs sometimes almost joining th...
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round robbin
[from the French ruban rond]. A mode of signing names in a circular form, after a complaint or remon...
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round seam
The edges or selvedges sewed together, without lapping.
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round seizing
This is made by a series of turns, with the end passed through the riders, and made fast snugly. In ...
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round shot
The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...
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round splice
One which hardly shows itself, from the neatness of the rope and the skill of the splicer. Properly ...
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round stern
The segmental stern, the bottom and wales of which are wrought quite aft, and unite in the stern-pos...
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round-top
A name which has obtained for modern tops, from the shape of the ancient ones. (See top.)
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turn in a heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it.
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give way with a will
Pull heartily together.
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bring 'em near
The day-and-night telescope.
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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...
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breeze, to kick up a
To excite disturbance, and promote a quarrelsome row.
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kick up a dust, to
To create a row or disturbance.
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lay up a ship, to
To dismantle her.
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pick up a wind, to
Traverses made by oceanic voyagers; to run from one trade or prevalent wind to another, with as litt...
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roll up a sail, to
To hand it quickly.
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turn in a dead-eye or heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it.
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Break-up
·noun Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly...
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Flare-up
·noun A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
II. Flare-up ·add. ·noun A sudden burst...
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Frame-up
·add. ·noun A conspiracy or plot, ·esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person ...
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Get-up
·noun General composition or structure; manner in which the parts of a thing are combined; make-up; ...
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Higher-up
·add. ·noun A superior officer or official;
— used chiefly in ·pl
...
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Hunt's-up
·noun A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousi...
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Let-up
·noun Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up.
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Line-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Lineup>>.
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Make-up
·noun The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is d...
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Making-up
·noun The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
II. Making-up ·noun The act of bringing spirits t...
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Pick-up
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Pickup>>.
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Pricking-up
·noun The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once ...
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Put-up
·adj Arranged; plotted;
— in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
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Seven-up
·noun The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge.
...
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Start-up
·noun A kind of high rustic shoe.
II. Start-up ·adj <<Upstart>>.
III. Start-up ·noun One who comes...
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Steep-up
·adj Lofty and precipitous.
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Step-up
·add. ·adj Transforming or converting a low-pressure current into one of high pressure; as, a step-u...
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Stuck-up
·adj Self-important and supercilious, /onceited; vain; arrogant.
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Take-up
·noun That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the...
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Tilt-up
·noun ·same·as Tip-up.
...
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Tip-up
·noun The spotted sandpiper;
— called also teeter-tail. ·see under <<Sandpiper>>.
...
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Up-line
·noun A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the ...
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Up-over
·add. ·adj Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising i...
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Up-train
·- A train going in the direction conventionally called up.
II. Up-train ·- A train going in the di...
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Up-wind
·add. ·adv Against the wind.
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Wind-up
·add. ·noun Act of winding up, or closing; a concluding act or part; the end.
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back up
His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, w...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bang up
(WHIP.)
Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cooped up
Imprisoned, confined like a fowl in a coop.
...
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dished up
He is completely dished up; he is totally ruined. To throw a thing in one's dish; to reproach or twi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagances. Modern Term.
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to mop up
To drink up. To empty a glass or pot.
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tucked up
Hanged. A tucker up to an old bachelor or widower; a supposed mistress.
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turned up
Acquitted; discharged.
...
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used up
Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedit...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bail up
v.
1) To secure the head of a cow in abail for milking.
2) By transference, to stop travellers in ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hang up
v.
to tie up a horse.
1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' p. 49 [Footnote]:
«In Melbourne there a...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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log up
v.
to make a log-support for thewindlass.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. v. p. 54:
«W...
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ready up
v.
See quotation.
1893. `The Age,' Nov. 25, p. 13, col. 2:
« Mr. Purees: A statement has been mad...
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roll up
v. intr.
to gather, to assemble.
1887. J. Farrell, `How he died,' p. 26:
«The miners all rolled u...
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roll-up
n.
a meeting. See preceding verb.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xxxv. p. 308:
«Makin...
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stick-up
v. tr.
1) The regular word for theaction of bushrangers stopping passers-by on the highway androbbi...
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sticker-up
I.
n. sc.
a bushranger.
1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 197:
«They had only just been liber...
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stock-up
v.
complete the number of animalson a station, so that it may carry its full complement.
1890. Rol...
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to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to brisk up
To come up with life and speed; to take an erect or bold attitude.--Webster. An Americanism.
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to brush up
To prepare oneself; to take courage.
When Miss Mary came, I brushed up, and was determined to have ...
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to chaw up
To use up; demolish.
I heerd Tom Jones swar he'd chaw me up, if an inch of me was found in them dig...
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to crack up
To crack, i. e. to brag or boast, is a verb common in old authors, from Chaucer downwards, and still...
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cuddle up
To hug or fondle. So used in some parts of England.
...
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to cut up
1) To criticise with severity; as, he was severely cut up in the newspapers.
Some correspondent ask...
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to fetch up
To stop suddenly. This sense of the word is not noticed in the English dictionaries, nor by Webster....
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to flare up
To blaze out; to get excited suddenly; to get into a passion.
It is expected that this grand discus...
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to hold up
In allusion to the weather, to clear up, after a storm; to stop raining.
Though nice and dark the p...
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to knock up
To wear out with fatigue.--Halliwell.
It is the constant labour, unvaried by the least relaxation, ...
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to pony up
A vulgar phrase, meaning to pay over money. Ex. 'Come, Mr. B----, pony up that account;' that is, pa...
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to row up
To punish with words; to rebuke. It is an essential Westernism, and derived from the practice of mak...
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to serve up
To expose to ridicule; to expose.
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to shut up
To hold one's tongue. A vulgar expression.
Jones was singing, "'Tis the Star Spangled Banner;" but ...
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to slick up
To dress up; to make fine.
Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored silk sh...
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to spruce up
To dress oneself sprucely. In Sussex (England) they say, to sprug up, in the same sense.
To-night w...
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to square up
To put oneself in an attitude fit for boxing. Provincial in various parts of England.--Halliwell.
Y...
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to stive up
To stuff up close.--Johnson.
Things are a good deal stived up. People's minds are sour, and I don't...
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to tip up
To raise up one end, as of a cart, so that the contents may pass out.--Worcester. Both this and the ...
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to use up
To discomfit; destroy. Grose has this word, which he calls a military one, meaning killed.
I have p...
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to wind up
To close up; to give the quietus to an antagonist in a debate; to effectually demolish.
John Bell, ...
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blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation.
There was a regular blow-...
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build up
To erect; and metaphorically to establish, to found.
In this manner it was thought we should sooner...
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buttoning up
A Wall street phrase. When a broker has bought stock on speculation and it falls suddenly on his han...
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chock up
Close, tight; said of a thing which fits closely to another.
When the bells ring, the wood-work the...
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done up
Ruined by gaming and extravagance.--Grose. We use it colloquially, where a person is ruined in any w...
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let up
A let up is a release; a relief. An expression borrowed from pugilists.
There was no let up in the ...
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pertend up
Better; more cheerful.--Sherwood's Georgia.
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pick-up
A pick-up, or a pick-up dinner, is a dinner made up of such fragments of cold meats as remain from f...
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tilt-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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tip-up
The popular name of the Sand-piper. See peet-weet.
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up to
To be up to a thing,' is to understand it. A common English and American vulgarism.
Have you ever t...
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up-block
a horse-block, or horsing-block Glouc.
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brail up!
The order to pull upon the brails, and thereby spill and haul in the sail. The mizen, or spanker, or...
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breezing up
The gale freshening.
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bringers up
The last men in a boarding or small-arm party. Among soldiers, it means the whole last rank of a bat...
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broke-up
Said of a gale of wind passing away; or a ship which has gone to pieces on a reef, &c.
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bundle-up!
The call to the men below to hurry up on deck.
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chock-up
, chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c.
Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...
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clue up!
The order to clue up the square sails.
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dock up
, or duck up
To clue up a corner of a sail that hinders the helmsman from seeing.
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drawing up
Adjusting a ship's station in the line; the converse of dropping astern.
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drifting-up
Is used as relating to sands which are driven by the winds. As at Cape Blanco, on the coast of Afric...
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duck-up!
A term used by the steersman when the main-sail, fore-sail, or sprit-sail hinders his seeing to stee...
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fly-up
A sudden deviation upwards from a sheer line; the term is nearly synonymous with flight.
♦ To fly ...
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hard up
The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...
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horse-up
See horsing-iron.
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jiggered-up
Done up; tired out.
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laid up
A vessel dismantled and moored in a harbour, either for want of employment, or as unfit for further ...
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rounding-up
Is to haul through the slack of a tackle which hangs in a perpendicular direction, without sustainin...
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setting-up
Raising a ship from her blocks, shores, &c., by wedges driven between the heels of the shore and the...
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set up
Soldiers, mariners, and small-arm men, well drilled, and instructed to be upright and soldierlike in...
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sharp up
Trimmed as near as possible to the wind, with the yards braced up nearly fore and aft.
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standing up
A ship in good trim, and well attended to, is said to stand well up to her canvas.
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tail up
When a whale dives perpendicularly. In this case whalers expect the fish to rise near the same spot....
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take-up
The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel in a marine boiler. Also, a seaman takes...
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tumble up!
A requisition of the boatswain's mates, &c., to quicken the hands after being piped up. The cry is w...
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up along
Sailing from the mouth of the channel upwards.
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up anchor
Pipe to weigh; every man to his station.
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up boats!
The order to hoist the boats to the stern and quarter davits.
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up courses!
The order to haul them up by the clue-garnets, &c.
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up screw!
The order in steamers to lift the screw on making sail.
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'way up!
See way aloft!
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wedging up
Gaining security by driving wedges.
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working up
The keeping men at work on needless matters, beyond the usual hours, for punishment.
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half-turn ahead!
An order in steam navigation. (See turn ahead!)
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turn in, to
To go to bed.
♦ To turn out. To get up.
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turn the glass
The order in throwing the log when the stray line is payed out.
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