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• Weight

  ·vt Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business. II. Weight ·vt A ponderous mass; s...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Dead

  ·adj Bringing death; deadly. II. Dead ·adj Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter. III. Dea...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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.

• Counter weight

  ·noun A <<Counterpoise>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jack weight

  A fat man. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• make weight

  A small candle: a term applied to a little slender man. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• make-weight

  a small candle, thrown in to complete the pound. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• weight-nails

  Somewhat similar to deck-nails, but not so fine, and with square heads; for fastening cleats and the...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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 ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• dead cargo

  A term used by thieves, when they are disappointed in the value of their booty. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dead horse

  To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dead-louse

  Vulgar pronunciation of the Dedalus ship of war. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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

• 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

• dead-finish

  n. a rough scrubtree. 1) Albizzia basaltica, Benth., N.O. Leguminosae. 2) Acacia farnesiana, Will...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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.

• 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.

• dead heads

  Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• 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.

• dead letter

  A writing or precept without any authority or force; a letter left in a post office and not called f...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dead-angle

  In fortification, is an angle receiving no defence, either by its own fire or that of any other work...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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 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...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• counter-balance weight

  in the marine engine. (See lever.) Also in many marine barometers, where it slides and is fixed by a...

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• weight of metal

  The weight of iron which the whole of the guns are capable of projecting at one round from both side...

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• dead-wood fence

  n. The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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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• broadside weight of metal

  The weight of iron which the guns of a ship can project, when single-shotted, from one side. (See we...

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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, ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• 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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• dead upon a wind

  Braced sharp up and bowlines hauled. ...

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• squaring the dead-eyes

  Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of the ship. ...

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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.

• score of a dead eye

  The groove round which the rope passes. ...

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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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