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Coral
·noun The ovaries of a cooked lobster;
— so called from their color.
II. Coral ·noun A piece of co...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Coral
Heb. ramoth, meaning "heights;" i.e., "high-priced" or valuable things, or, as some suppose, "that w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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coral
n.
See bats-wing-coral.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coral
A name applied to the hard calcareous support or skeleton of many species of marine zoophytes. The c...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Coral
(Ezekiel 27:16) A production of the sea, formed by minute animals called zoophytes. It is their shel...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Band
·vt A bond.
II. Band ·- imp. of Bind.
III. Band ·vt A belt or strap.
IV. Band ·vt Pledge; securit...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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band
a string of any kind. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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band
The musicians of a band are called idlers in large ships. Also a small body of armed men or retainer...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Band
The "band of Roman soldiers" referred to in (Matthew 27:27) and elsewhere was the tenth part of a le...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Coral fish
·- Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which l...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Coral-rag
·noun ·same·as <<Corallian>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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coral-fern
n.
name given in Victoria to Gleichenia circinata, Swartz, called in Bailey's list Parasol-Fern. Se...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coral-flower
n.
a plant, Epacris (q.v.), Epacris microphylla, R. Br., N.O. Epacrideae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coral pea
n.
another name for the Kennedya (q.v.).
1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53:
«The trailing sc...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pea, coral
n. See coral pea.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Band fish
·- A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Reef-band
·noun A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Augustus band
(Acts 27:1.: literally, of Sebaste, the Greek form of Augusta, the name given to Caesarea in honour ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Italian band
The name of the Roman cohort to which Cornelius belonged (Acts 10:1), so called probably because it ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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band-kitt
a kind of great can with a cover; called in Yorkshire a BOW-KITE.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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calling-band
a leading string, or back-string, for children. Sometimes called only a CAL. York, - West Riding.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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shirt-band
a band. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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band-fish
, or ribbon-fishes
A popular name of the Gymnetrus genus.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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belly-band
A strip of canvas, half way between the close-reef and the foot of square sails, to strengthen them....
The Sailor's Word-Book
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humla-band
A northern term for the grommet to an oar-pin or thole.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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middle band
One of the bands of a sail, to give additional strength.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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reef-band
A narrow band of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points. It is pierc...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Augustus Band
(Acts 27:1) [Army]
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Troop, Band
These words are employed to represent the Hebrew word gedud, which has invariably the sense of an ir...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Stag-horn coral
·- ·Alt. of Stag-horn fern.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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bats-wing-coral
n.
the Australian wood Erythrina vespertilio, Bentham, N.O. Leguminosae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usef...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sand and coral bank
An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...
The Sailor's Word-Book