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elbow in the hawse
Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...
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turn in the hawse
Two crosses in a cable.
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Hawse
·noun A hawse hole.
II. Hawse ·noun That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for th...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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hawse
This is a term of great meaning. Strictly, it is that part of a vessel's bow where holes are cut for...
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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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Cross in Cheapside
See Great Cross in Cheapside.
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Cross
·noun Church lands.
II. Cross ·prep Athwart; across.
III. Cross ·vi To be inconsistent.
IV. Cross...
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Cross
In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ its...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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(Holy) Cross
See Crutched Friars.
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cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the conclusion.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Cross
As the emblem of a slave's death and a murderer's punishment, the cross was naturally looked upon wi...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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in the wind
The state of a vessel when thrown with her head into the wind, but not quite all in the wind (see al...
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in
in (old forms endŏ and indŭ, freq. in ante-class. poets; cf. Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4; id. ap. Macr. S...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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in
in I old indu, prep.with acc.or abl.
I I. With acc., in space, with verbs implying ent...
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in-
in- an inseparable particle cf. Gr. ἀ-, ἀν-; Germ. and Eng. un-, which, prefixed to an adj., negati...
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-in
·- A suffix. ·see the Note under -ine.
...
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In
·noun A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
II. In ·noun One who is in office;
— the opposite of ou...
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In-
·- An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- re...
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in
for into. Mr. Colman, in remarking upon the prevalence of this inaccuracy in New York, says: "We get...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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in
The state of any sails in a ship when they are furled or stowed, in opposition to out, which implies...
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Great Cross in Cheapside
In West Cheap in the parish of St. Peter West Cheap, in the ward of Farringdon Within, opposite the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Stone Cross in Cheap
Hugh of the Stone Cross in the Ward of Chepe is mentioned in 10 Ed. I. 1282 in Cal. L. Bk. B. p.13.
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foul hawse
When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside th...
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hawse-bags
Canvas bags filled with oakum, used in heavy seas to stop the hawse-holes and prevent the water comi...
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hawse-blocks
Bucklers, or pieces of wood made to fit over the hawse-holes when at sea, to back the hawse-plugs.
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hawse-bolsters
Planks above and below the hawse-holes. Also, pieces of canvas stuffed with oakum and roped round, f...
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hawse-box
, or naval hood.
Pieces of plank bolted outside round each of the hawse-holes, to support the proj...
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hawse-bucklers
Plugs of wood to fit the hawse-holes, and hatches to bolt over, to keep the sea from spurting in.
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hawse-fallen
To ride hawse-fallen, is when the water breaks into the hawse in a rough sea, driving all before it....
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hawse-full
Riding hawse-full; pitching bows under.
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hawse-holes
Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...
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hawse-hook
A compass breast timber which crosses the hawse-timber above the ends of the upper-deck planking, an...
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hawse-pieces
The timbers which compose the bow of a vessel, and their sides look fore and aft; it is a name given...
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hawse-pipe
A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood.
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hawse-plugs
Blocks of wood made to fit into the hawse-pipes, and put in from the outside to stop the hawses, and...
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hawse-timbers
The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut.
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hawse-wood
A general name for the hawse-timbers.
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open hawse
When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables.
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
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Ephraim in the wilderness
(John 11: 54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and ...
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Thorn in the flesh
(2 Cor. 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage.
1) Roman Catholic writers t...
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Burnt in the Fire 1666.
Not further identified.
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Le Cok in the Houpe
A tenement so called in parish of St. Alphege at London Wall 1349 (Ct. H.W. I. 566).
No further ref...
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(St.) Dunstan in the East
On the west side of St. Dunstan's Hill at No. 2 (P.O. Directory). In Tower Ward.
Earliest mention f...
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(St.) Dunstan in the West
On the north side of Fleet Street at No. 187 (P.O. Directory), between Fetter Lane and Chancery Lane...
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(St.) James' in the Temple
See Temple Church.
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(St.) Martin in the Jewry
Thomas the priest of St. Martin's in the Jewry is mentioned in a Deed about 1197, as witness to a gr...
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(St.) Olave in the Shamb1es
Parish mentioned in Will of Milo de Wynton, 1273-4 (Ct. H.W. I. 16).
Perhaps the church of St. Nich...
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Pye in the Royall
A Messuage so called in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Church, 1565 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 35).
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(St.) Stephen in the Jewry
See St. Stephen Coleman Street.
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(St.) Ursula in the Poultry
Seint Vrsula, chapel in the Pultry, mentioned in the list of Parish Churches of London in Arnold's C...
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babes in the wood
Criminals in the stocks, or pillory.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dicked in the nob
Silly. Crazed.
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drop in the eye
Almost drunk.
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flush in the pocket
Full of money. The cull is flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money.
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shove in the mouth
A dram.
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ten in the hundred
An usurer; more than five in the hundred being deemed usurious interest.
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wheelband in the nick
Regular drinking over the left thumb.
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windmills in the head
Foolish projects.
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wolf in the breast
An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...
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wolf in the stomach
A monstrous or canine appetite.
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to flash in the pan
To fail of success. A metaphor borrowed from a gun, which, after being primed and ready to be discha...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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down in the mouth
Dispirited, dejected, disheartened.--Brockett's Glossary.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dyed in the wool
Ingrained; thorough.
The Democrats, on the authority of Mr. Cameron's letter, are beginning to clai...
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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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cloth in the wind
Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy.
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down in the mouth
Low-spirited or disheartened.
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flash in the pan
An expressive metaphor, borrowed from the false fire of a musket, meaning to fail of success after p...
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jack in the basket
A sort of wooden cap or basket on the top of a pole, to mark a sand-bank or hidden danger.
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jack in the box
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...
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jack in the dust
See jack in the bread-room
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lay in the oars
Unship them from the rowlocks, and place them fore and aft in the boat.
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sheet in the wind
Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man.
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square in the head
Very bluff and broad in the fore-body.
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wind in the teeth
Dead against a ship.
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Bezer In The Wilderness
a city of refuge in the downs on the east of the Jordan. (4:43; Joshua 20:8; 21:36; 1 Chronicles 6:7...
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Wandering In The Wilderness
[Wilderness Of The Wandering OF THE WANDERING]
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crossing the cables in the hatchway
A method by which the operation of coiling is facilitated; it alludes to hempen cables, which are no...
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The
·vi ·see <<Thee>>.
II. The (·art·def) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their me...
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Cross-armed
·adj With arms crossed.
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Cross-banded
·adj A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furnitu...
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Cross-bearer
·noun A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
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Cross-birth
·noun Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, ...
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Cross-bun
·noun A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
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Cross-buttock
·add. ·noun A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg a...
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Cross-crosslet
·noun A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
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Cross-days
·noun ·pl The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
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Cross-examination
·noun The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and...
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Cross-examine
·vt To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
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Cross-examined
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-examiner
·noun One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
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Cross-examining
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-eye
·noun ·see <<Strabismus>>.
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Cross-eyed
·adj Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
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Cross-fertilize
·add. ·vt To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual...
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Cross-fertilized
·add. ·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-fertilizing
·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-garnet
·noun A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an...
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Cross-pawl
·noun ·same·as Cross-spale.
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Cross-purpose
·noun A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
II. Cross-...
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Cross-question
·vt To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
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Cross-questioned
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-question.
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Cross-questioning
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-question.
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Cross-reading
·noun The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns,...
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Cross-spale
·noun ·Alt. of Cross-spall.
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Cross-spall
·noun One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position ...
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Cross-springer
·noun One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Il...
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Cross-staff
·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...
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Cross-stitch
·noun A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch cross...
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Cross-stone
·noun ·see <<Harmotome>>, and <<Staurotide>>.
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Cross-tail
·noun A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
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Cross-tie
·noun A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
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Cross-tining
·noun A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
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Cross-vaulting
·noun Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
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Cross-week
·noun Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
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Holy cross
·- The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
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Peltier's cross
·add. ·- A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.
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Red Cross
·add. ·- The crusaders or the cause they represented.
II. Red Cross ·add. ·- A hospital or ambulanc...
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Broken Cross
At the western end of Cheapside. near the church of St. Michael le Querne. Erected by the Earl of Gl...
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Cow Cross
See St. John Street.
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Cross Alley
North out of George Alley, with a passage west to Shoe Lane at No. 32. In Farringdon Ward Without (H...
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Cross Court
Out of London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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The Cross Keys
Messuages and tenements called the "Cross Keys" and the "Woodwharfe" near Paul's Wharf in parish of ...
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Cross Lane
1) East out of St. Mary-at-Hill to Harp Lane (P.O. Directory), crossing St. Dunstan's Hill. In Billi...
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Cross Street
West out of King Street to Milk Street Market, crossing Laurence Lane (Hatton, 1708-Strype, ed. 1755...
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The Golden Cross
The sign of the Golden Cross in Temys Street, 1538 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. (1), p. 220).
No later ...
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Holborn Cross
Near the Conduit at Snow Hill, in parish of St. Sepulchre. (Stow 387).
First mention: "Holbourn Cro...
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Holy Cross
See Holy Cross.
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Minories' Cross
In Agas' map at the junction of the Minories and Little Tower Hill.
It is also shown on Haiward and...
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(St.) Paul's Cross
At the north-east end of the Cathedral (O.S. 1880).
"About the middest of the Churchyard is a pulpi...
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Red Cross
1) In Watling Street. Rent given to parish of All Hallows, Bread_Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 1...
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White Cross
In an Inquisition 3 Ed. I. mention is made of water coming down from Smethefeld del Barbican in the ...
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cross dishonest
A cross cove; any person who lives by stealing or in a dishonest manner.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross bite
One who combines with a sharper to draw in a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint. CANT.--This ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross buttock
A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more pl...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross patch
A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
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weeping cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent.
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Southern Cross
n.
The constellation of theSouthern Cross is of course visible in places farther norththan Australi...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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criss-cross
1) A mark in the shape of a cross; especially that of those who cannot sign their own names. Mr. Har...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-eye
That sort of squint, by which both the eyes turn towards the nose, so that the rays, in passing to t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-fox
A fox whose color is between the common reddish-yellow and the silver-gray, having on its back a bla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-grained
Perverse; troublesome; vexatious.--Johnson.
Or what the plague did Juno mean,
That cross-grain'd...
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cross-patch
An ill-tempered person. A vulgar word, used alike in England and America. Patch is a very old word o...
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criss-cross
The mark of a man who cannot write his name.
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cross-bars
Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor.
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cross-bitt
The same as cross-piece (which see).
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cross-bored
Bored with holes alternately on the edges of planks, to separate the fastenings, so as to avoid spli...
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cross-bow
An ancient weapon of our fleet, when also in use on shore.
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cross-chocks
Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heel...
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cross-fish
A northern name for the asterias or star-fish; so called from the Norwegian kors-fisk. Also, the Ura...
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cross-grained
Not straight-grained as in good wood; hence the perverse and vexatious disposition of the ne'er-do-w...
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cross-head
In a steamer's engine, is on the top of the piston-rod athwart the cylinder; and there is another fi...
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cross-pawls
See cross-spales.
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cross-piece
The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...
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cross-sea
A sea not caused by the wind then blowing. During a heavy gale which changes quickly (a cyclone, for...
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cross-somer
A beam of timber.
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cross-spales
or spalls.
Temporary beams nailed across a vessel to keep the sides together, and support the ship...
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cross-staff
See fore-staff.
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cross-swell
This is similar to a cross-sea, except that it undulates without breaking violently.
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cross-tail
In a steam-engine, is of the same form as the cylinder cross-head: it has iron straps catching the p...
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cross-tide
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.)
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cross-timbers
See cross-piece.
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cross-trees
Certain timbers supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees at the upper ends of the lower and top mas...
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southern cross
The popular name of a group of stars near the South Pole, which are somewhat in the figure of a cros...
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Chapel in (St.) Dunstan in the East Churchyard
There was a chapel "upon the charnell in the chirch haue of Seint Dunstan in the Est," mentioned in ...
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freshen hawse, to
To relieve that part of the cable which has for some time been exposed to friction in one of the haw...
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(St.) Andrews Cross on the Hoop
A tenement and garden so called in Fleet Street in parish of St. Dunstan between the tenement of the...
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becket, the tacks and sheets in the
The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small k...
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All Hallows in the Ropery
See All Hallows the Great.
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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...
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(St.) Dunstan Fraternity, in the Go1dsmithery
Various bequests were made to the Wardens of this Fraternity in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Simon ...
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(St.) Dunstan in the East, Churchyard
On the north and south sides of the Church (O.S.). Churchyard of the Church of St. Dunstan in East c...
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Hole in the Wall Court
At No. 6o Fleet Street (Lockie, 1810).
Named after the public house so called.
The name is said to...
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(St.) James' in the Wall Hermitage
A chapel or hermitage adjoining the north-west corner of the Wall of London near Cripplegate in Farr...
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(St.) James' in, near the Vintry
See St. James' Garlickhithe.
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(St.) John in the White Tower
See St. John's Chapel in the Tower.
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(St.) John's Chapel in the Tower
In the White Tower, Tower of London. A fine specimen of Norman architecture. Records kept there (De ...
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Standard in the Old Bailey
Mentioned by Stow (391) and the waste of the water served the prisoners in Ludgate.
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(St.) Stephen's Lane in the Jewry
Rents in the lane of St. Stephen in the Jewry near the Brethren of the Penance of Jesus Christ, 1291...
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board him in the smoke
To take a person by surprise, as by firing a broadside, and boarding in the smoke.
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jack in the bread-room
, or jack in the dust.
The purser's steward's assistant in the bread and steward's room.
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lieutenant, in the royal navy
The officer next in rank and power below the commander. There are several lieutenants in a large shi...
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pay-serjeant, in the army
A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...
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shake in the wind, to
To bring a vessel's head so near the wind, when close-hauled, as to shiver the sails.
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span in the rigging, to
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three sheets in the wind
Unsteady from drink.
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in eopte
in eopte eo ipso, Paul. ex Fest. p. 110 Müll.
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Biting in
·- The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. ·see <<Etch>>.
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In antis
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In commendam
·- ·see <<Commendam>>, and Partnership in Commendam, under <<Partnership>>.
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In esse
·- In being; actually existing;
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In loco
·- In the place; in the proper or natural place.
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In posse
·- In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass;
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In rem
·add. ·- Lit., in or against a (or the) thing;.
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In situ
·- In its natural position or place;
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In transitu
·- In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.
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In vacuo
·- In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.
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In-going
·noun The act of going in; entrance.
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