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pay, to
[from Fr. poix, pitch]. To pay a seam is to pour hot pitch and tar into it after caulking, to defend...
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no! no!
The answer to the night-hail by which it is known that a midshipman or warrant officer is in the boa...
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Pitch
·noun Height; stature.
II. Pitch ·noun To cover over or smear with pitch.
III. Pitch ·noun A desce...
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Pitch
(Gen. 6:14), asphalt or bitumen in its soft state, called "slime" (Gen. 11:3; 14:10; Ex. 2:3), found...
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pitch
Tar and coarse resin boiled to a fluid yet tenacious consistence.
It is used in a hot state with o...
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Pitch
The three Hebrew words so translated all represent the same object, viz., mineral pitch or asphalt i...
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No
No, an Egyptian city , perh. Alexandria; acc. to Bochart, Thebes , Hier. ad Ezech. 30, 14.
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no
no, nāvi, 1, v. n. [νέω], to swim, float. I Lit.: alter nare cupit: alter pugnare paratu'st, Enn. a...
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no
nō āvī, —, āre 1 NA-, to swim, float : nat lupus, O.: piger ad nandum, O.: ars nandi, O.— Prov.: n...
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No
·adj Not any; not one; none.
II. No ·noun A refusal by use of the wordd no; a denial.
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No
stirring up; forbidding
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No
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Pay
·noun Satisfaction; content.
II. Pay ·vt To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pa...
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to pay
To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, a...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pay
A buccaneering principle of hire, under the notion of plunder and sharing in prizes, was, no purchas...
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Hot
·- imp. & ·p.p. of Hote.
II. Hot ·- of <<Hote>>.
III. Hot ·- of <<Hote>>.
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Devil
·noun An evil spirit; a demon.
II. Devil ·noun A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
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Devil
(Gr. diabolos), a slanderer, the arch-enemy of man's spiritual interest (Job 1:6; Rev. 2:10; Zech. 3...
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devil
1) A printer's errand-boy. Also a small thread in the king's ropes and cables, whereby they may be d...
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devil
A kind of expletive, expressing wonder or vexation; a ludicrous negative, in an adverbial sense; a t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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devil
A sort of priming made by damping and bruising gunpowder.
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Devil
(slanderer). The name describes Satan as slandering God to man and man to God. The former work is of...
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pitch in, to
To set to work earnestly; to beat a person violently. (A colloquialism.)
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pay round, to
To turn the ship's head.
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no catchy no havy
If I am not caught, I cannot be hurt. Negro saying.
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pay a yard, to
See pay a mast, to
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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to
To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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Auction pitch
·add. ·- A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the...
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Pitch-black
·adj Black as pitch or tar.
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Pitch-dark
·adj Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
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Pitch-faced
·adj Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true...
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Pitch-ore
·noun <<Pitchblende>>.
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Tough-pitch
·noun Copper so reduced;
— called also tough-cake.
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pitch-kettled
Stuck fast, confounded.
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bastard-pitch
A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar. They are boiled down together, and put into barrels of...
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pitch-boat
A vessel fitted for boiling pitch in, which should be veered astern of the one being caulked.
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pitch-house
A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels.
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pitch-kettle
That in which the pitch is heated, or in which it is carried from the pitch-pot.
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pitch-ladle
Is used for paying decks and horizontal work.
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pitch-mop
The implement with which the hot pitch is laid on to ships' sides and perpendicular work.
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pitch-pine
♦ Pinus resinosa, commonly called Norway or red pine. (See pine.)
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no odds
No difference; no consequence; no matter. A common expression in low language.
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no-howish
Qualmy; feeling an approaching ailment without being able to describe the symptoms.
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No-Adiah
(whom Jehovah meets).
• A Levite, son of Binnui who with Meremoth, Eleazar and Jozabad weighed the ...
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No-Amon
(temple of Amon) (Nahum 3:8) No, (Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 30:14,16) a city of Egypt, better known un...
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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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Pay Cerps
·add. ·- A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, payma...
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Pay dirt
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pay rock.
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Pay rock
·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner.
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Pay streak
·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.
II. Pay streak ·add. ·- The zone, p...
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Pay Office
On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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store pay
Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...
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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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full pay
The stipend allowed when on actual service.
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growing pay
That which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect.
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pay away
The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope.
♦ Pay down. Send che...
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retired pay
A graduated pension for retired officers; but the term is nearly synonymous with half pay.
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sea-pay
That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship.
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Full-hot
·adj Very fiery.
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Hot blast
·- ·see under <<Blast>>.
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Hot bulb
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hot pot.
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Hot pot
·add. ·- ·see Semi-diesel, below.
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Hot-blooded
·adj Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.
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Hot-brained
·adj Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth.
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Hot-head
·noun A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.
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Hot-headed
·adj Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
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Hot-livered
·adj Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.
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Hot-mouthed
·adj <<Headstrong>>.
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Hot-short
·adj More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.
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Hot-spirited
·adj Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed.
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Red-hot
·adj Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited...
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White-hot
·adj White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
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hot pot
Ale and brandy made hot.
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hot stomach
He has so hot a stomach, that he burns all the clothes off his back; said of one who pawns his cloth...
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...
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hot-windy
adj.
See houhere.
1871. Dingo, `Australian Rhymes,' p. 18:
«A spell that still makes me forget
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hot coppers
Dry fauces; morning thirst, but generally applied to those who were drinking hard over-night.
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hot-press
When the press-gangs were instructed, on imminent emergency, to impress seamen, regardless of the pr...
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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hot-well
In a steamer, a reservoir from whence to feed the boiler with the warm water received out of the con...
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Dare-devil
·noun A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement.
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Devil bird
·noun A small water bird. ·see <<Dabchick>>.
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Devil-diver
·noun ·Alt. of Devil bird.
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Go-devil
·add. ·noun A rough sled or dray used for dragging logs, hauling stone, ·etc.
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Sea devil
·- The <<Angler>>.
II. Sea devil ·- Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Arc...
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Water devil
·- The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophilus piceus), and of other similar species. ·...
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devil catcher
A parson.
See snub devil.
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devil driver
A parson.
See snub devil.
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devil drawer
A miserable painter.
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kill devil
New still-burnt rum.
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devil, tasmanian
n.
an animal, Sarcophilusursinus, Harris. Formerly, but erroneously, referred tothe genus Dasyurus ...
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mountain-devil
n.
name given to thestrange-looking Australian lizard, Moloch horridus,Gray. See Moloch. Also calle...
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tasmanian devil
n.
the only species of thegenus Sarcophilus (q.v.), S. ursinus.
1894. R. Lydekker, `Marsupialia,' ...
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devil-fish
(Genus, Sophius. Cuvier.) The common name of the American Angler, so called from its hideous form. I...
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dare-devil
One who fears nothing, and will attempt anything.
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devil-bolts
Those with false clenches, often introduced into contract-built ships.
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devil-fish
The Lophius piscatorius, a hideous creature, which has also obtained the name of fish-frog, monk-fis...
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kill-devil
New rum, from its pernicious effects.
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sea-devil
A name for the Lophius piscatorius, or angler, a fish with a large head and thick short body.
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
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dirty dog and no sailor
or soldier.
A mean, spiritless, and utterly useless rascal.
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pay a vessel's bottom, to
To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.)
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To
·prep Addition; union; accumulation.
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To-
·prep An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break,...
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to
for at or in, is an exceedingly common vulgarism in the Northern States. We often hear such vile exp...
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cut and run, to
To cut the cable for an escape. Also, to move off quickly; to quit occupation; to be gone.
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veer and haul, to
To gently tauten and then slacken a rope three times before giving a heavy pull, the object being to...
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chewing of pitch
See chewing of oakum
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No-man's land
·- Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.
II. No-man's land ·- A space amidships used to keep blocks, ro...
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Seek-no-further
·noun A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste;
— formerly called go-no-further.
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cry'd no-child
a woman cried down by her husband. Lane. NO-CHILD is supposed to be a corruption of NICHIL, i. e. NI...
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come no near!
The order to the helmsman to steer the ship on the course indicated, and not closer to the wind, whi...
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no-man's land
A space in midships between the after-part of the belfry and the fore-part of a boat when it is stow...
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pinch-gut pay
The short allowance money.
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Hot Water Court
North out of Fann Street at No. 49.
A portion only within the City boundary (P.O. Directory).
Firs...
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red-hot balls
Shot made red-hot in a furnace, and in that state discharged at the enemy. The loading is managed wi...
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bring-to, to
To bend, as to bring-to a sail to the yard. Also, to check the course of a ship by trimming the sail...
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broach-to, to
To fly up into the wind. It generally happens when a ship is carrying a press of canvas with the win...
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heave-to, to
To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, by adjusting her sails so as to counteract each other, ...
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lie-to, to
To cause a vessel to keep her head steady as regards a gale, so that a heavy sea may not tumble into...
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round-to, to
To bring to, or haul to the wind by means of the helm. To go round, is to tack or wear.
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cheating the devil
Softenings of very profane phrases, the mere euphemisms of hard swearing, as od rot it, od's blood, ...
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put to sea, to
To quit a port or roadstead, and proceed to the destination.
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turn to windward, to
To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...
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to make no bones of
To do a thing without hesitation. A metaphor borrowed from eating with dispatch as if it contained n...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body
A short clumsy person, either male or female.
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devil-on-the-coals
n.
a Bushman's name fora small and quickly-baked damper.
1862. Rev. A. Polehampton, `Kangaroo Land...
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Lean-to
·adj Having only one slope or pitch;
— said of a roof.
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Set-to
·noun A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
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To-beat
·vt To beat thoroughly or severely.
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To-break
·vt To break completely; to break in pieces.
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To-brest
·vt To burst or break in pieces.
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To-day
·noun The present day.
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To-do
·noun Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
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To-fall
·noun A lean-to. ·see Lean-to.
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To-name
·noun A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.
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To-rend
·vt To rend in pieces.
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To-rent
·Impf & ·p.p. of To-rend.
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to bam
To impose on any one by a falsity; also to jeer or make fun of any one.
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to bamboozle
To make a fool of any one, to humbug or impose on him.
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to baste
To beat. I'll give him his bastings, I'll beat him heartily.
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to bishop
the balls, a term used among printers, to water them.
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to bitch
To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To stand bitch; to make tea, or do the honours of the ...
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to bite
To over-reach, or impose; also to steal.--Cant. --Biting was once esteemed a kind of wit, similar to...
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to bug
A cant word among journeymen hatters, signifying the exchanging some of the dearest materials of whi...
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to grab
To seize a man. The pigs grabbed the kiddey for a crack: the officers, seized the youth for a burgla...
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to top
To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors...
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to tower
To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
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to twig
To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, sn...
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hump, to
v.
to shoulder, carry on the back;especially, to hump the swag, or bluey, or drum. See Swag, Bluey,...
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jump, to
v.
to take possession of a claim(mining) on land, on the ground that a former possessor hasabandone...
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to buckle-to
To set about any task with energy and a determination to effect the object. It probably comes from h...
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to cotton to
'To cotton to one,' is to take a liking to him; to fancy him; literally to stick to him, as cotton w...
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abase, to
An old word signifying to lower a flag or sail. Abaisser is in use in the French marine, and both ma...
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abate, to
An old Anglo-Norman word from abattre, to beat down or destroy; as, to abate a castle or fort, is to...
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abet, to
To excite or encourage a common word, greatly in use at boat-racings, and other competitive acts.
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abrase, to
To dubb or smooth planks.
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accoil, to
To coil together, by folding round. (See coil.)
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accompany, to
To sail together; to sail in convoy.
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accost, to
To pass within hail of a ship; to sail coastwise; to approach, to draw near, or come side by side.
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adjourn, to
To put off till another day. Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays exc...
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adjust, to
To arrange an instrument for use and observation; as, to adjust a sextant, or the escapement of a ch...
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advance, to
An old word, meaning to raise to honour.
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aid, to
To succour; to supply with provisions or stores.
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allow, to
To concede a destined portion of stores, &c.
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annul, to
To nullify a signal.
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answer, to
To reply, to succeed; as, the frigate has answered the signal. This boat will not answer.
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commute, to
To lighten the sentence of a court-martial, on a recommendation of the court to the commander-in-chi...
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compass, to
To curve; also to obtain one's object.
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complain, to
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compliment, to
To render naval or military honour where due.
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conquer, to
To overcome decidedly.
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consign, to
To send a consignment of goods to an agent or factor for sale or disposal.
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copper, to
To cover the ship's bottom with prepared copper.
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corn, to
A remainder of the Anglo-Saxon ge-cyrned, salted. To preserve meat for a time by salting it slightly...
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couple, to
To bend two hawsers together; coupling links of a cable; coupling shackles.
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cripple, to
To disable an enemy's ship by wounding his masts, yards, and steerage gear, thereby placing him hors...
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cund, to
To give notice which way a shoal of fish is gone.
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cure, to
To salt meat or fish.
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debark, to
To land; to go on shore.
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decamp, to
To raise the camp; the breaking up from a place where an army has been encamped.
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deck, to
A word formerly in use for to trim, as "we deckt up our sails."
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derrick, to
A cant term for setting out on a small not over-creditable enterprise. The act is said to be named f...
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dress, to
To place a fleet in organized order; also, to arrange men properly in ranks; to present a true conti...
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drive, to
[from the Anglo-Saxon dryfan].
A ship drives when her anchor trips or will not hold. She drives to...
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dubb, to
To smooth and cut off with an adze the superfluous wood.
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duck, to
To dive, or immerse another under water; or to avoid a shot.
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egg, to
To instigate, incite, provoke, to urge on: from the Anglo-Saxon eggion.
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eke, to
[Anglo-Saxon eácan, to prolong.] To make anything go far by reduction and moderation, as in shorteni...
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embark, to
To go on board, or to put on board a vessel.
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endanger, to
To expose to peril.
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enrol, to
To enter the name on the roll of a corps.
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ensconce, to
To intrench; to protect by a slight fortification.
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gip, to
To take the entrails out of fishes.
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