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Upon
·prep On;
— used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
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Upon
This expression is used instead of "in" in the case of Lothbury, Bucklersbury, Aldermanbury, and Cor...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dead
·adj Bringing death; deadly.
II. Dead ·adj Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
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dead
This word is vulgarly used in the sense of utter, complete. Ex. "A dead beat," i. e. a complete beat...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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on a wind
Synonymous with on a bowline.
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Wind
·noun Power of respiration; breath.
II. Wind ·noun The <<Dotterel>>.
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wind
To raise the wind; to procure mony.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wind
an alley or narrow street. Scotch.
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wind
[precisely the Anglo-Saxon word]. A stream or current of air which may be felt. The horizon being di...
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wind a boat, to
To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.)
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wind a ship or boat, to
To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.)
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to allot upon
To intend, to form a purpose; as, I allot upon going to Boston. Used by uneducated people in the int...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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down upon
To be down upon, is to seize with avidity, as a bird of prey would pounce down upon its victim. Allu...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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nigh upon
Nearly; almost.
I got your letter and razor-strap. It's a complete strap as you ever see; and as so...
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doubling upon
In a naval engagement, the act of inclosing any part of a hostile fleet between two fires, as Nelson...
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lap upon
The mast carlings are said to lap upon the beams by reason of their great depth, and head-ledges at ...
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raised upon
When a vessel is heightened in her upper works.
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A
A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, correspond...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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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.
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A 1
·- A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior...
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A-
·- 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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Dead beat
·- ·see <<Beat>>, ·noun, 7.
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Dead-eye
·noun A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three ...
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Dead-hearted
·adj Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
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Dead-pay
·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
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Dead-reckoning
·noun ·see under Dead, a.
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Dead-stroke
·adj Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
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Stone-dead
·adj As dead as a stone.
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Dead Sea
The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the "sa...
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dead cargo
A term used by thieves, when they are disappointed in the value of their booty.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead horse
To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead-louse
Vulgar pronunciation of the Dedalus ship of war.
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dead men
A cant word among journeymen bakers, for loaves falsely charged to their masters' customers; also em...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead-bird
n.
In Australia, a recent slangterm, meaning «a certainty.» The metaphor is frompigeon-shooting, wh...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dead-finish
n.
a rough scrubtree.
1) Albizzia basaltica, Benth., N.O. Leguminosae.
2) Acacia farnesiana, Will...
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a dead set
A concerted scheme to defraud a person by gaming.--Grose, Slang Dict. This phrase seems to be taken ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead-alive
Dull, inactive, moping.--Barnes's Dorset Glossary. We often hear the expression, "He is a dead-alive...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead heads
Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the ...
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dead horse
Work for which one has been paid before it is performed. When a workman, on Saturday night, includes...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead letter
A writing or precept without any authority or force; a letter left in a post office and not called f...
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dead-angle
In fortification, is an angle receiving no defence, either by its own fire or that of any other work...
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dead-calm
A total cessation of wind; the same as flat-calm.
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dead-doors
Those fitted in a rabbet to the outside of the quarter-gallery doors, with the object of keeping out...
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dead-eye
, or dead man's eye.
A sort of round flattish wooden block, or oblate piece of elm, encircled, and...
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dead-flat
The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...
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dead-freight
The sum to which a merchant is liable for goods which he has failed to ship.
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dead-head
A kind of dolphin (which see). Also, a rough block of wood used as an anchor-buoy.
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dead-headed
Timber trees which have ceased growing.
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dead-horse
A term applied by seamen to labour which has been paid for in advance. When they commence earning mo...
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dead-lift
The moving of a very inert body.
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dead-lights
Strong wooden shutters made exactly to fit the cabin windows externally; they are fixed on the appro...
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dead-lown
A completely still atmosphere.
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dead-men
The reef or gasket-ends carelessly left dangling under the yard when the sail is furled, instead of ...
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dead-months
A term for winter.
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dead-pay
That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...
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dead-reckoning
The estimation of the ship's place without any observation of the heavenly bodies; it is discovered ...
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dead-rising
In ship-building, is that part of a ship which lies aft between the keel and her floor-timbers towar...
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dead-ropes
Those which do not run in any block.
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dead-shares
An allowance formerly made to officers of the fleet, from fictitious numbers borne on the complement...
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dead-sheave
A scored aperture in the heel of a top-mast, through which a second top-tackle pendant can be rove. ...
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dead-ticket
Persons dying on board, those discharged from the service, and all officers promoted, are cleared fr...
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dead-water
The eddy-water under the counter of a ship under way; so called because passing away slower than the...
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dead weight
A vessel's lading when it consists of heavy goods, but particularly such as pay freight according to...
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dead wood
Certain blocks of timber, generally oak, fayed on the upper side of the keel, particularly at the ex...
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dead works
All that part of the ship which is above water when she is laden. The same as upper work, or superna...
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Dead Sea
This name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have existed until the second century afte...
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dead as a door nail
Utterly, completely dead. The figure is that of a nail driven into wood, and, therefore, perfectly i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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score of a dead eye
The groove round which the rope passes.
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Broken wind
·- The <<Heaves>>.
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Down-wind
·add. ·adv With the wind.
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Thick wind
·- A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the sign...
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Up-wind
·add. ·adv Against the wind.
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Volcanic wind
·add. ·- A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection current...
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Wind signal
·add. ·- In general, any signal announcing information concerning winds, and ·esp. the expected appr...
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Wind-break
·noun A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
II. Wind-break ·vt To br...
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Wind-broken
·adj Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air c...
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Wind-fertilized
·adj Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
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Wind-plant
·noun A <<Windflower>>.
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Wind-rode
·adj Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide;
— said of a vesse...
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Wind-shaken
·add. ·adj Shaken by the wind;.
II. Wind-shaken ·add. ·adj affected by wind shake, or anemosis (whi...
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Wind-sucker
·noun A horse given to wind-sucking.
II. Wind-sucker ·noun The <<Kestrel>>.
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Wind-sucking
·noun A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air;
— usually associated with cr...
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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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East wind
The wind coming from the east (Job 27:21; Isa. 27:8, etc.). Blight caused by this wind, "thin ears" ...
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wind-mill
The fundament. She has no fortune but her mills; i.e. she has nothing but her **** and a*se.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hot wind
n.
an Australian meteorologicalphenomenon. See quotations, especially 1879, A. R. Wallace.The phras...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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, ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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wind-berry
a bilberry or whortleberry. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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wind-row
to wind-row, to rake the mown grass into rows, called wind-rows. Norf. and Suff.
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wind-gauge
See anemometer
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beating wind
That which requires the ship to make her way by tacks; a baffling or contrary wind.
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bottom-wind
A phenomenon that occurs on the lakes in the north of England, especially Derwent Water, which is of...
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east wind
This, in the British seas, is generally attended with a hazy atmosphere, and is so ungenial as to co...
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eddy-wind
That which is beat back, or returns, from a sail, bluff hill, or anything which impedes its passage;...
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fall-wind
A sudden gust.
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foul wind
That which prevents a ship from laying her course.
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gall-wind
See wind-gall.
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head-wind
A breeze blowing from the direction of the ship's intended course. Thus, if a ship is bound N.E. a N...
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helm-wind
A singular meteorological phenomenon which occurs in the north of England. Besides special places in...
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high wind
See heavy gale.
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leading-wind
Wind abeam or quartering; more particularly a free or fair wind, and is used in contradistinction to...
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north wind
This wind in the British seas is dry and cold, and generally ushers in fair weather and clear skies....
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quarter-wind
Blowing upon a vessel's quarter, abaft the main-shrouds.
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soldier's wind
One which serves either way; allowing a passage to be made without much nautical ability.
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south-wind
A mild wind in the British seas with frequent fogs; it generally brings rain or damp weather.
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traverse-wind
A wind which sets right in to any harbour, and prevents the departure of vessels.
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west wind
This and its collateral, the S.W., prevail nearly three-fourths of the year in the British seas, and...
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wild-wind
An old term for whirlwind.
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wind-bands
Long clouds supposed to indicate bad weather.
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wind-bound
Detained at an anchorage by contrary winds.
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wind-fall
A violent gust of wind rushing from coast-ranges and mountains to the sea. Also, some piece of good ...
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wind-gage
See anemometer.
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wind-gall
A luminous halo on the edge of a distant cloud, where there is rain, usually seen in the wind's eye,...
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wind-rode
A ship is wind-rode when the wind overcomes an opposite tidal force, and she rides head to wind.
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wind-sail
A funnel of canvas employed to ventilate a ship by conveying a stream of fresh air down to the lower...
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wind-taut
A vessel at anchor, heeling over to the force of the wind.
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wind-tight
A cask or vessel to contain water is said to be wind-tight and water-tight.
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young wind
The commencement of the land or sea breeze.
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hold a good wind, to
To have weatherly qualities.
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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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death's head upon a mop-stick
A poor miserable, emaciated fellow; one quite an otomy.
See otomy.-- He looked as pleasant as the p...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Judah upon Jordan
The Authorized Version, following the Vulgate, has this rendering in Josh. 19:34. It has been sugges...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Conduit upon Cornhill
In Cornhill opposite the north end of Change Alley and the eastern side of the Royal Exchange.
Show...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Michael upon Thames
See St. Michael Queenhithe.
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(St.) Miltheldrede upon Walbrook
See St. Mildred Poultry.
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Tun upon Cornhill
In Cornhill, opposite the north end of Change Alley. Built as a prison for night walkers by Henry le...
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dance upon nothing
To be hanged.
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account, going upon
A phrase for buccaneering.
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double upon, to
See doubling upon.
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luff upon luff
One luff-tackle applied to the fall of another, to afford an increase of purchase.
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ship raised upon
One of which the upper works have been heightened by additional timbers. About the year 1816 several...
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six-upon-four
Reduced allowance; four rations allotted to six men.
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whip upon whip
A sort of easy purchase, much used in colliers. It consists of one whip applied to the falls of anot...
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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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shaking a cloth in the wind
In galley parlance, expresses the being slightly intoxicated.
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dead-wood fence
n.
The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...
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dead man's eye
See dead-eye
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dead-men's effects
When a seaman dies on board, or is drowned, his effects are sold at the mast by auction, and the pro...
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dead-on-end
The wind blowing directly adverse to the vessel's intended course.
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dead-wood knees
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
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A cappella
·- A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.
II. A cappella ·- In church or chapel style;
— sai...
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A cheval
·add. ·- Astride; with a part on each side;
— used specif. in designating the position of an army w...
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A fortiori
·- With stronger reason.
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A posteriori
·- Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; i...
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A priori
·- Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to...
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A-mornings
·adv In the morning; every morning.
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A-sea
·adv On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.
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A-tiptoe
·adv On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.
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Due-a
·noun ·see Do-a.
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Pi-a
·add. ·noun The <<Pineapple>>.
II. Pi-a ·add. ·noun Pi-a cloth or the fiber of which it is made.
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Vicu-a
·noun ·Alt. of <<Vicugna>>.
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a-many
a great number, pronounced Meyny. North.
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a-scat
broken like an egg. Dev.
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a-slat
crack'd like an earthen vessel. Dev.
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a-burton
The situation of casks when they are stowed in the hold athwart ship, or in a line with the beam.
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a-cockbill
(see cock-bill). The anchor hangs by its ring at the cat-head, in a position for dropping.
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a-hull
A ship under bare poles and her helm a-lee, driving from wind and sea, stern foremost. Also a ship d...
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a-lee
The contrary of a-weather: the position of the helm when its tiller is borne over to the lee-side of...
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a-poise
Said of a vessel properly trimmed.
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a-starboard
The opposite to a-port.
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a-stay
Said of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable forms such an angle with the surface as to appear ...
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a-trip
The anchor is a-trip, or a-weigh, when the purchase has just made it break ground, or raised it clea...
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a-wash
Reefs even with the surface. The anchor just rising to the water's edge, in heaving up.
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a-weather
The position of the helm when its tiller is moved to the windward side of the ship, in the direction...
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a-weigh
The anchor being a-trip, or after breaking out of the ground.
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Wind Mill Alley
West out of Minories. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677).
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breath of wind
All but a dead calm.
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by the wind
Is when a ship sails as nearly to the direction of the wind as possible. (See full and by.) In gener...
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capful of wind
A light flaw, which suddenly careens a vessel and passes off.
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fret of wind
A squally flaw.
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gale of wind
Implies what on shore is called a storm, more particularly termed a hard gale or strong gale; number...
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haul her wind
Said of a vessel when she comes close upon the wind.
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haul my wind
An expression when an individual is going upon a new line of action. To avoid a quarrel or difficult...
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head to wind
The situation of a ship or boat when her head is pointed directly to windward. The term is particula...
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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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shift of wind
Implies that it varies, or has changed in its direction.
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slant of wind
An air of which advantage may be taken.
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slope of wind
A breeze favouring a long tack near to the required course, and which may be expected to veer to fai...
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under the wind
So situated to leeward of something as not to feel the wind.
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wind away, to
To steer through narrow channels.
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eating the wind out of a vessel
Applies to very keen seamanship, by which the vessel, from a close study of her capabilities, steals...
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Le Dolphyn upon le Hoop
A brewhouse tenement called "le Dolphyn upon le hoop" in parish of St. Magnus by London Bridge, 23 H...
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going upon the dub
Going out to break open, or pick the locks of, houses.
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Baptism for the dead
Only mentioned in 1 Cor. 15:29. This expression as used by the apostle may be equivalent to saying, ...
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Resurrection of the dead
Will be simultaneous both of the just and the unjust (Dan. 12:2; John 5:28, 29; Rom. 2:6-16; 2 Thess...
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squaring the dead-eyes
Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of the ship.
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mine a-se on a bandbox
An answer to the offer of any thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is wanted, just as a band...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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down wind, down sea
A proverbial expression among seamen between the tropics, where the sea is soon raised by the wind, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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eye of the wind
The direction to windward from whence it blows. (See wind's-eye.)
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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gain the wind, to
To arrive on the weather-side of some other vessel in sight, when both are plying to windward.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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raise the wind, to
To make an exertion; to cast about for funds.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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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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The Sailor's Word-Book