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table-cloth
A fleecy-looking cloud which sometimes covers the "table" or flat top of Table Mountain, at the Cape...
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Table
·noun a memorandum book.
II. Table ·noun A circular plate of crown glass.
III. Table ·noun The com...
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Cloth
·noun The dress; raiment. [Obs.] ·see <<Clothes>>.
II. Cloth ·noun The distinctive dress of any pro...
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blue devils
Low spirits.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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devil's daughter
It is said of one who has a termagant for his wife, that he has married the Devil's daughter, and li...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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devil's dung
Assafoetida.
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devil's guts
A surveyor's chain: so called by farmers, who do not like their land should be measured by their lan...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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devil's guts
n.
The name is given in Australiato the Dodder-Laurel (see Laurel), Cassythafiliformis, Linn., N.O....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blue devils
To have the blue devils is to be dispirited.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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devil's claw
A very strong kind of split hook made to grasp a link of a chain cable, and used as a stopper.
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devil's smiles
Gleams of sunshine among dark clouds, either in the heavens or captain's face!
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Corbel-table
·noun A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used...
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Experience table
·add. ·- A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.
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Pembroke table
·add. ·- A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period.
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Plane table
·- ·see under Plane, ·adj.
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Table d'hote
·- A common table for guests at a hotel; an <<Ordinary>>.
II. Table d'hote ·add. ·- Now, commonly, ...
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Table work
·add. ·- Typesetting of tabular nmatter, or the type matter set in tabular form.
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Table-land
·noun A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
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Time-table
·noun A table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes.
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Water table
·add. ·- The upper limit of the portion of the ground wholly saturated with water. The water table m...
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Wilfley table
·add. ·- An inclined percussion table, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by...
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table-land
Land which is flat-topped, however it may be raised more or less above the ordinary level of the vic...
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table-money
An allowance to admirals and senior officers, in addition to their pay, to meet the expenses of thei...
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table-shore
A low level shore.
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traverse-table
A table which gives the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to a certain course and d...
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Bearing cloth
·- A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
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Carborundum cloth
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Carborundum paper.
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Cheese cloth
·add. ·- A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
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Goring cloth
·noun A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
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Gunny cloth
·- A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus C...
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Henrietta cloth
·add. ·- A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.
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Lady's cloth
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc.
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Match-cloth
·noun A coarse cloth.
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Thibet cloth
·- A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
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Top-cloth
·noun A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect ...
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Cloth Fair
East out of West Smithfield at No. 59 to Kiughorn Street (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Withou...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cloth Street
South out of
First mention: O.S. 188-51.
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Cloth Yard
Out of Dunning's Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in th...
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cloth market
He is just come from the cloth market, i.e. from between the sheets, he is just risen from bed.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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broad cloth
Square sails.
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buntline-cloth
The lining sewed up the fore-part of the sail in the direction of the buntline to prevent that rope ...
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goring-cloth
See goring
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Devil's darning-needle
·- A dragon fly. ·see Darning needle, under Darn, ·vt.
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devil's daughter's portion
Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The Devil gave with his daughter in marriage; And, by a codicil to his wil...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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devil's darning needle
A common name for the Dragon-fly.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Pi-a cloth
·add. ·- A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, ·etc., woven from the fiber obtained f...
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Cloth Workers' Court
North out of White Friers, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Paved Alley and Ashentr...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Back Alley, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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Back Streate, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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King Street, Cloth Fair
See Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair.
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Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair
South out of Cloth Fair, at No. 63, to Bartholomew Close, in Farringdon Ward Without.
Renamed 1885....
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cloth in the wind
Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy.
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shaking a cloth in the wind
In galley parlance, expresses the being slightly intoxicated.
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