See quatuor maria.
·noun ·pl People of Great Britain. II. British ·adj Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inh...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Porter. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
May be foreign built, or rebuilt on a foreign keel which belonged to any of the people of Great Brit...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Settled in an enemy's country, may not trade in any contraband goods. ...
Such as has been built in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of th...
·- Half drunk. ...
Almost drunk. ...
Intoxicated; drunk. A sailor's expression. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A name given to the extensive inland bodies of fresh water in the Canadas. Of these, Lake Superior i...
Nearly intoxicated. This term was used by Swift. ...
When heavy seas tumble over the gunwale either to windward or leeward; sometimes resulting from bad ...
To infest the ocean as a pirate. ...
A phrase to express the peculiar excellence of our first-class merchantmen. ...
One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him. SEA PHRASE. ...
A drunken man that pisses under the table into his companions' shoes. ...