davy jones

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• Davy Jones

  ·- The spirit of the sea; sea devil; — a term used by sailors. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• davy

  I'll take my davy of it; vulgar abbreviation of affidavit. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Davy lamp

  ·- ·see Safety lamp, under <<Lamp>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Jones, Ebenezer

  (1820-1860) Poet, wrote a good deal of poetry of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true p...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Very, Jones

  (1813-1880) Essayist and poet, b. at Salem, Mass., where he became a clergyman and something of a m...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Jones' Rents

  At the south end of Crosskeys Court, with a passage into Swan Alley. In Coleman Street Ward (Strype,...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Jones' Yard

  In Stony Lane, Petticoat Lane, in Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the m...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• david jones

  The devil, the spirit of the sea: called Necken in the north countries, such as Norway, Denmark, and...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Davy, Sir Humphrey

  (1778-1829) Chemist and man of letters, s. of a wood-carver, was b. at Penzance. He early showed an...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• davy jones's locker

  The ocean; the common receptacle for all things thrown overboard; it is a phrase for death or the ot...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Jones, Ernest Charles

  (1819-1869) Poet, novelist, and Chartist, s. of Major J., equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, afterw...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Jones, Sir William

  (1746-1794) Orientalist and jurist, was b. in London, and ed. at Harrow and Oxf. He lost his f., an...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Jones, Henry Arthur

  (b. 1851) Dramatist. A Clerical Error (1879), The Silver King (1882), Saints and Sinners (1884), Th...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin